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Recent Examples of blockish
Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.
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Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
Bold and blockish, but soft around the edges.
—Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2021
Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
Bold and blockish, but soft around the edges.
—Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blockish
Adjective
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One of the strongest examples of this new trend is French designer Llewellyn Chupin’s Ritual of Adornment collection, which offered a strong contrast between the blocky furniture silhouettes and the delicate ornamentation festooning them.—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington, stands just a few minutes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a blocky concrete tower encircled by chain-link fencing and razor wire.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Techno music blared as models in unisex knitwear walked a runway strewn with moss and split down the middle with bulky metal beams.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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But, again, like cars, there are plenty of people and purposes that don’t require those bulky, hard-sided Yeti coolers with wheels, charging ports, and cup holders.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This happens when its dense stellar corpse is close enough to its companion star to allow its gravity to begin stripping away the partner's stellar material.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The resulting configuration provides much denser storage than conventional all flash parallel file systems.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Blockish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blockish. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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