boxy
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It started with the Renault 5 E-Tech, which visually echoed the distinctive boxy styling of the original Renault 5, once an ever-present sight on French streets.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Governments and tech firms worldwide are spending trillions of dollars on data centres -- boxy buildings stuffed with racks of computer servers that power apps and AI tools.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
This single-cab electric pickup—as bare-boned as a Willys Jeep, as boxy as a 4-year-old’s drawing—is expected to go on sale late this year or early 2027, with a starting price under $30,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
They watched with alarm as a developer known for building boxy duplexes in South Los Angeles started buying lots on their block in west Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
It was a red-brick Georgian Colonial, boxy but handsome in a quiet kind of way, two and a half stories high with dormered windows and a chimney on each end.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
And the overall shape is boxier, with sharper angles and a taller road stance.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022
The boxier screen of the time made TV a medium of close-ups and two-shots, more congenial to conversation and argument than spectacle and action.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2016
Instead, it’s a slightly thicker, boxier replacement for the slender strip of aluminum Apple’s been shipping with existing Apple TV models for years.
From Time ● Sep. 9, 2015
On the streets of Manhattan, drivers have come to recognize tour vehicles as boxier, less hurried versions of city buses — rivaling only sanitation trucks as the least appealing vehicles to tail.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013
The city's aging taxi fleet is scheduled to be replaced by a boxier model designed to be easier for older riders and people with disabilities to open the doors and slide in and out.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2011
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