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Recent Examples of cubical
Luca Chiaravalle: The Smallest Muse Luca Chiaravalle makes miniature art galleries, the rectangular and cubical scenes housing tiny people contemplating art.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Even the workpiece itself was cubical.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.
—Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2025
The secret lay in the surface area of cubical foams.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
Stripping down to a black business-casual bikini with silver accents and necktie while her long blonde ponytail whipped around behind her, the MC turned the digital cubical farm behind her into a sweaty nightclub.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2019
Trying to rope the universe with our own definitions is like trying to put a spherical peg in a cubical hole.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010
R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Even the workpiece itself was cubical.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.
—Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2025
The secret lay in the surface area of cubical foams.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
Stripping down to a black business-casual bikini with silver accents and necktie while her long blonde ponytail whipped around behind her, the MC turned the digital cubical farm behind her into a sweaty nightclub.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Once that happens, terahertz communications can significantly complement mmWave in indoor environments such as a hallway, meeting rooms, cubical offices, laboratories, and open areas.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2019
Trying to rope the universe with our own definitions is like trying to put a spherical peg in a cubical hole.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cubical
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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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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Indianapolis hosts the Combine every year, which means each February its downtown briefly becomes the world capital for strong-jawed men in athleisure who could be described as broad, brawny, buff, burly, built, boxy, or otherwise physically notable.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Hill extensively customized the spread during his tenure, most notably painting the boxy structure’s formerly all-white exterior a deep shade of charcoal gray.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
12 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cubical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cubical. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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