as in mistake
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
he dropped a brick that had his friends helpless with laughter
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Recent Examples of brick
The bricks aren't just artificially weathered, there are period adverts painted on them higher up the sides of the buildings.
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Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Since 2011 more than 200 buildings in Turkey have been built using Renco blocks, which fit together like Lego bricks and are secured with glue.
—Lucy Handley, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Numerous retailers have shuttered bricks and mortar stores, with CBS reporting that closures jumped by 69 percent in November 2024 when compared with a year earlier.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The building, built in 1905, falls within the Wholesale District on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Frankel, Frank & Company Building and features Chicago sash windows and gray brick.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
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Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Since 2011 more than 200 buildings in Turkey have been built using Renco blocks, which fit together like Lego bricks and are secured with glue.
—Lucy Handley, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Numerous retailers have shuttered bricks and mortar stores, with CBS reporting that closures jumped by 69 percent in November 2024 when compared with a year earlier.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The building, built in 1905, falls within the Wholesale District on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Frankel, Frank & Company Building and features Chicago sash windows and gray brick.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick
Noun
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Daniel Weiner, the director of government and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the legal deadlines were set in part so that there would be time to make revisions before the Electoral Votes were cast in the event of a mistake or legal challenge.—
Daniel Desrochers,
Kansas City Star,
22 Jan. 2025
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That portrays the Court as an institution that has made historic mistakes on citizenship and need not be trusted as the sole authority on the meaning of the Constitution.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2025
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The German hit 12 unforced errors in the set as too many of his forehands skewed off his racket at the wrong angle and out of the court.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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Keys broke three times in the first set, helped in part by Sabalenka’s four double-faults and 13 total unforced errors.—
Howard Fendrich,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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The blunder occurred during the triple toss-up round on Thursday, January 16.—
Aaron Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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Scientists have long known that DNA-copying systems make the occasional blunder—that’s how cancers often start—but only in recent years has technology been sensitive enough to catalog every genetic booboo.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Brick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brick. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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