crystal

Just because your intentions are crystal clear doesn’t mean you specified them out loud.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Making these parts requires the blade to be “grown” in a vacuum furnace as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, according to Nigel Chiang, an analyst at SemiAnalysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

At least Elon Musk will never be able to get his grubby little ravioli paws on your sticker-adorned binder of crystal card pulls.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

Under those conditions, the bonds between metal and nitrogen atoms could break apart and reform more easily, allowing the crystal structure to organize properly.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

“No, we are different,” she said before laughing and speaking a language not even Ella's translation crystal could decode.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Yet despite their enormous potential, researchers have only been able to produce these microscopic crystals from a relatively narrow range of materials.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

"I remember the first time I looked through the electron microscope and saw those crystals," said Lin.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

She calls cows to breakfast with a holler, extemporizes on the Bible in full paragraphs and keeps a collection of high-vibration crystals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Selvam said, his voice hard and sharp like crystals.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King