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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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Faber: I don’t have a crystal ball, but I don’t see it getting a lot better for another 12 to 18 months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Physicists at TU Dortmund University showed in January 2024 that a continuous time crystal could persist inside a semiconductor, with its oscillations remaining stable for hours.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

It can be a liquid or a crystal form too.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Some might say that Plaschke laid down the curse at the start of the season, but looking at the Dodgers now just before postseason, it points instead to Plaschke’s crystal ball being quite clear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Please,” Jason added, then spoke a strange language Ella's translation crystal couldn't decipher.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"Essentially, all of this happens because there is a physical relation between the size of a droplet and the size of ice crystals in the clouds and the frequency spectrum," she pointed out.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

One year after the death of Giorgio Armani, his brand's designs are pairing traditional elegance with crystals and sequins for the spring-summer collection presented on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The team found that time crystals located as far as 40 micrometers apart could still synchronize.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Cloud seeding involves manipulating existing clouds, such as by dropping salt crystals or silver iodide into them, to help produce more rain.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Then Chicho places a tiara on my head, my first ever, with sparkly crystals.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

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

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

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




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