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  • adjective comparative form of boxy: more boxy

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Examples

  • The new phone model looks similar to the previous iPhone lineup, but with a new "boxier" body style.

    Icrontic 2010

  • The new phone model looks similar to the previous iPhone lineup, but with a new "boxier" body style.

    Icrontic 2010

  • Cult of Mac says it has heard from a source there will be two MacBook Air models: a redesigned "boxier" 13.3-inch version, in the same vein as the design of the iPhone 4; and a smaller 11.6-inch model.

    CNET News.com 2010

  • Both sections of the house had a second floor, but the right portion was taller, boxier.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Distant ancestral forms, the australopithecines, had shorter, boxier frames with stubbier legs.

    metabolic cost of running is not flat with speed 2009

  • But cheaper and more varied Japanese rivals nudged aside the Bug just a few years later, and its boxier replacement, the Rabbit (later the Golf), never caught on as well with Americans as it did elsewhere.

    Volkswagen Aims at Fast Lane in U.S. Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010

  • What began with sleek downtown projects from architects like Richard Meier and Jean Nouvel was followed by boxier glass residential buildings that sprouted like weeds along midtown's West Side.

    Condos Break Glass to Try Classic Style Craig Karmin 2011

  • Wendell Burnette, based in Phoenix, who won the 2009 Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is also known for his "desert modern" houses—but his tend to be boxier and use more metal.

    Top Architects Go Local Nancy Keates 2011

  • Both sections of the house had a second floor, but the right portion was taller, boxier.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Distant ancestral forms, the australopithecines, had shorter, boxier frames with stubbier legs.

    tingilinde: 2009

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