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boxlike

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At its center was a boxy concrete tower—a mine shaft that would carry us nearly two miles down into the earth.

— James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
Dersch’s exhibit featured a fully functioning Xerox Alto workstation with its boxy vertical monitor, chunky keyboard and mouse, as well as pizza-sized spinning disks that store tiny amounts of data by modern standards.

— Terry Chea, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

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However, the interface relies heavily on massive, auto-playing video tiles and blocky promotional banners that constantly compete for your attention, making the overall browsing experience a bit too cluttered and chaotic for my liking.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 28 July 2026
Tesla sold less than one-sixth of that number in its first year, and the truck’s blocky looks became a punchline.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

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Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said that some gas processing facilities in Asaluyeh had been damaged, resulting in the loss of 95 million cubic meters per day of production capacity.

— Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Mexico holds over 140 Tcf (trillion cubic feet) of unconventional gas resources, mostly in northern shale or tight sand basins.

— Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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The venue was a blockish and forbidding space called Magazine, which squats in a loop of the Thames, in southeast London.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
PowerBlock’s blockish design has critics comparing it to reaching into a toaster but the brand has solid loyalty among serious home-gym owners and strength enthusiasts.

— David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

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The hefty hardback, which weighs nearly eight pounds, comprises 222 pages and more than 125 illustrations dedicated to LV’s iconic cuboid creations.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
Jones tottered through the wetlands in hip waders, holding high a cuboid plastic container tall enough to enclose the towering tule plants.

— Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2021

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