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block in

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to sketch in outline, with little detail

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Originally built as an office block in 1963, the Centre Point tower next to Tottenham Court Road underground station, remained unoccupied for over a decade, angering social justice campaigners.

From BBC

Investigators have been sent to the scene, in a car park near an apartment block in the south of Russia's capital.

From BBC

Nearly one year after the Eaton fire incinerated their block in west Altadena, neighbors gathered again, greeting one another with hugs that spoke to a bond forged by shared loss.

From Los Angeles Times

The toy they ended up building is a sleek block in pastel colors that sits under the TV and looks like a Rubik’s Cube.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Baird team also noted a change in Satoshi mining activity, that coincide with the time he founded Block in Feb. 2009, and the time he visited Iraq with the State Department in April that year.

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