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The boxy top-handle tote became an instant icon, at a time when city-dwelling young women with high standards weren’t seeing bags that were versatile enough to fit a back-to-the-basics ’90s aesthetic.—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 12 Apr. 2025 The game is a near-infinite sandbox rendered in pixelated cubes, and your character (the default avatar is a blue-shirted man named Steve) begins their adventure armed only with their boxy hands.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025 This has led to a growth in private development of new student housing with many older cottage style houses being demolished to make way for boxy duplexes.—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2025 The seating options, fluctuating between beige-brown and flashes of fire-engine red, are strictly functional: boxy armchairs clustered around low tables or standard four-tops by the hot breakfast buffet.—Scott Campbell, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boxy
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