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Recent Examples of brick wall
On the brick wall facing the Pittsburg Hot Links parking lot, a mural memorializes the small East Texas town’s most famous citizens, including Mean Gene the Hot Link King and Homer Jones, the New York Giants receiver who invented spiking the football after a touchdown.
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
The museum building itself is also art visitors should notice — there are fossils, petrified wood and arrowheads in the brick walls.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Converting the back brick wall into a glass one is, in fact, often the first thing architects recommend during a townhouse renovation.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
The museum building itself is also art visitors should notice — there are fossils, petrified wood and arrowheads in the brick walls.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025
Converting the back brick wall into a glass one is, in fact, often the first thing architects recommend during a townhouse renovation.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brick wall
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In the basement of the structure, embedded in the stone wall, is a metal ring.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
4 Mar. 2025
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In the basement of that commercial building on Gracechurch Street, surrounded by high-rise towers filled with financial and insurance firms, archaeologists began excavating large, exploratory pits two years ago until stone walls several feet thick and dozens of feet long were exposed.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
18 Feb. 2025
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India and China also have some non-trade barriers, noted Sung Won Sohn, professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University and chief economist at SS Economics.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Trump has long believed that EU tariffs and non-tariff barriers had unfairly restricted U.S. sales of automobiles and other goods.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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This chain of bases could restrict China’s ambition through blockade, and controlling Taiwan would help China create a gap in this chain.—
Colin Flint,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2025
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The drills focused on practicing assaults on maritime and ground targets, and blockades of key areas and sea lanes to test the joint operation capabilities of its troops, Senior Colonel Shi Yi said in a statement released by the People’s Liberation Army.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2025
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Cathy Harris is from the Merit Systems Protection Board, which reviews disputes from federal workers and could be a significant stumbling block as the Trump administration seeks to carry out a dramatic downsizing of the workforce.—
Lindsay Whitehurst and Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Protecting security and maintaining privacy has been a stumbling block for the IRS’s past attempts to address aging infrastructure.—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Brick wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brick%20wall. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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