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Recent Examples of boxy
The coat itself features the peacoat's traditional design elements, including wide lapels, a boxy shape, and double-breasted buttons—which are in this case flat and metallic.
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2025
The dress included such details as a structured, boxy white top with short sleeves to the elbows.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
The fountain, which resembles a tumbling mess of boxy concrete tubes, some nearly forty feet high, has long been controversial.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2025
The boxy Rover parked outside Lowestoft station is particularly evocative for a British child of the eighties and nineties.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2025
The dress included such details as a structured, boxy white top with short sleeves to the elbows.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
The fountain, which resembles a tumbling mess of boxy concrete tubes, some nearly forty feet high, has long been controversial.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2025
The boxy Rover parked outside Lowestoft station is particularly evocative for a British child of the eighties and nineties.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boxy
Adjective
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The film spoofs The Shining (1980), The Lost Boys (1987) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with the blocky LEGO characters.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, British sportswear brand Lonsdale’s blocky logo on T-shirts unintentionally contained a Nazi reference.—
Steve Salter,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Holding nearly 600 cubic feet of saltwater and measuring over six feet deep, the pool is one of the largest on a vessel this size, according to Columbus.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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His company is not alone in eyeing the sand, about 750,000 cubic yards, piling up at Prado Dam as a source, but permitting has proven too difficult.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Even the workpiece itself was cubical.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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The were only a few objects and all had a single, cubical shape.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Boxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boxy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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