bricking
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Now, Amazon is following a well-established pattern of companies bricking smart home hardware because they no longer want to support its ecosystem.
From The Verge • May 30, 2022
After Sony announced that it would no longer be supporting updates for Aibo in 2014—effectively bricking the little fellows—a Buddhist temple in Japan began holding funerals for hundreds of the decommissioned robot dogs.
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2021
“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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