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Recent Examples of boxy
The TVs are boxy as hell to tell the audience, This is the past.
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
When people gather around a boxy TV set at one point to catch a soap opera, the show bears the monolithic-sounding title The Women Migrant Workers.
—Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
Its cross-cultural world-building—etched, with shabbily retro flair, in boxy frames of grainy 16-mm.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
And other features, like the primary bath with boxy dual sinks and a Japanese soaking tub, are kind of delightfully retro.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2025
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
When people gather around a boxy TV set at one point to catch a soap opera, the show bears the monolithic-sounding title The Women Migrant Workers.
—Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
Its cross-cultural world-building—etched, with shabbily retro flair, in boxy frames of grainy 16-mm.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
And other features, like the primary bath with boxy dual sinks and a Japanese soaking tub, are kind of delightfully retro.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxy
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The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.—
Sarah Scoles,
Popular Science,
2 Nov. 2023
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According to reports from the Osservatorio Etneo, most of the lava flows have been small and cool enough to become blocky flows not too far from the crater area, but on at least three occasions since December 23, major lava flows have been produced.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
14 Jan. 2013
Adjective
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Researchers grew a synthetic diamond that’s harder than natural ones by heating and compressing graphite in such a way that the diamond is formed with a hexagonal lattice, rather than the cubic shape found in nature.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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At Shasta Lake, federal dam operators have let out 60,000 cubic feet per second since Saturday through the outlet valves at the massive Shasta Dam.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 Apr. 2019
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The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Boxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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