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Recent Examples of boxy
The focal point of the outfit is her boxy leather jacket, similar to this roomy style that comes in brown, black, and gray.
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
So many new builds right now are very generic and boxy, with almost no decorative features, but many are still brick.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Like Jeeps and Ford Broncos, the Blazer was once part of the boxy, utilitarian-looking SUV club.
—James Raia, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
The top was a strapless, boxy, heavily textured bodice constructed from three-dimensional floral embellishments.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
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Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
So many new builds right now are very generic and boxy, with almost no decorative features, but many are still brick.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Like Jeeps and Ford Broncos, the Blazer was once part of the boxy, utilitarian-looking SUV club.
—James Raia, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
The top was a strapless, boxy, heavily textured bodice constructed from three-dimensional floral embellishments.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxy
Adjective
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Two computer monitors displayed a riot of overlapping windows, including an old, blocky software program called P-COM, which offered thirty-five types of commands.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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The biggest transformation occurs in the blocky, brutalist Crucible Theatre, which shifts from staging Shakespeare and Harold Pinter to become the Theatre of Dreams — snooker’s holiest of holy sites, where 32 leading players from across the world compete to be be named the best of the best.—
Andrew Dickson,
Bloomberg,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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The demonstrator version will be 4 m long, and will have a payload capacity of 2 tons with a payload volume of 8 cubic meters.—
Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
18 May 2026
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The Interior Ministry said the search and rescue operation at apartment building lasted more than 28 hours and hundreds of rescuers sifted through 3,000 cubic meters of rubble.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Luca Chiaravalle: The Smallest Muse Luca Chiaravalle makes miniature art galleries, the rectangular and cubical scenes housing tiny people contemplating art.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Even the workpiece itself was cubical.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Boxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxy. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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