snowflake
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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The sensors also have an aerosol probe that measures particulate matter, because dust helps with snowflake formation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
It was carved from rock crystal and decorated with rose-cut diamonds, as well as platinum snowflake motifs.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
It looked like a snowflake, down to the delicate lacework of ice.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Their meat is regularly likened to snowflakes, in part because of the intricate patterns in its fat marbling, but also for the way that it dissolves in your mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
"The avalanche of truth starts with snowflakes," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Planets form from the bottom up, by sticking small-scale planetesimals together. But forming a planet at the edge of the instability zone would be like trying to stick snowflakes together in a hurricane," he said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Not to be a bummer, but come summer, you might just find yourself missing the snowflakes.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
Fluffy clumps of hair fall down like black snowflakes, and it gives me an idea of something to write about in Daddy’s poem notebook.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
