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Recent Examples of cubicalStripping down to a black business-casual bikini with silver accents and necktie while her long blonde ponytail whipped around behind her, the MC turned the digital cubical farm behind her into a sweaty nightclub.—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 The Hardness of Hard Problems For decades, the cubical foam problem went relatively unexplored in higher dimensions.—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023 When the garden was excavated, archaeologists found evidence of a large water reservoir and a cubical limestone object with a hole in the center—likely the remains of a primitive toilet seat.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023 Trying to rope the universe with our own definitions is like trying to put a spherical peg in a cubical hole.—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2010 The secret lay in the surface area of cubical foams.—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023 Cages were left in the open (normal control), under a wooden pyramid model (experimental rats) or in a cubical box of comparable dimensions (6 hr/day for 14 days).—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2012 Even before the pandemic hit, property-casualty insurance giant Travelers Cos. started moving away from the traditional office-and-cubical configurations.—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 22 Sep. 2022 The result is the cubical B2, a rusty red groundmech who rolls around the planet Ferrix.—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
On Thursday, Trinity Gas Storage announced commencement of operations at its 24 bcf (billion cubic feet) storage unit located near Carthage in East Texas, about 160 miles southeast of Dallas.
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David Blackmon,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Nemeth noted that in the spring of 2023 when California was being drenched with atmospheric river storms, 156,000 cubic feet of water per second — an enormous amount similar to the flow of the Columbia River — was flowing through the Delta and under the Golden Gate Bridge out to the sea.
The computers were blocky, the jeans were baggy, and the US military was sending Marines to Iraq to support weapons inspections.
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Sarah Scoles,
Popular Science,
2 Nov. 2023
According to reports from the Osservatorio Etneo, most of the lava flows have been small and cool enough to become blocky flows not too far from the crater area, but on at least three occasions since December 23, major lava flows have been produced.
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