agate
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Joel Otterson’s intimate sculptures set moss agate in silver and brass at Ehrlich Steinberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
The touch-screen is installed next to the agate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
Among his tasks in Metro was putting together the weather page, assembling all that agate type that listed highs and lows across the country.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
A writer's block crystals gift set available through Etsy offers agate, carnelian, tiger eye, citrine, amethyst and clear quartz crystals to help those struggling to formulate sentences.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
“I suppose we don’t necessarily need to find a snakeskin agate precisely,” said Kaori.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Experts from the University of Leeds and a specialist spectroscopy company were also involved, and they found she had carnelians and agates which she collected in Scarborough, where she worked as a governess.
From BBC ● May 21, 2022
Just south of Ocean Shores at the tip of the C-shaped bay, you’ll find Damon Point, a half-mile peninsula famous locally for post-storm agates and red and green jasper.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
It is hard not to be charmed by Lowell’s hyperventilating report on his agates and turtles and toy soldiers, but the word “mania” suggests that he suspected the darker fortunes to come.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
As I dug up the rocks to cover her, I found shells and agates and chunks of perfectly weathered beach glass.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016
They pointed to the swans, which had been identical before but now were strange—one fanged and made of agates and moss, another seeming dipped in gold.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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