bricking
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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During this summer of bricking, a few thoughts refused to leave me.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
Ventura also isn’t full of bugs or glitches that are ruining workflows or bricking computers, so there’s that.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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