alabaster

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Her prom dreams inch closer as her lies begin to mount and her new alabaster skin starts peeling off at extremely inopportune moments.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The alabaster vase bears inscriptions in four ancient languages: Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025

Among the nearly 100 works on view are sculptures in iron, wood, alabaster and clay as well as drawings, collages and experimental works using paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

He moved his catapult again, closed his hand around Tyrion’s alabaster dragon, removed it from the board.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin