crystal
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If you have a crystal ball that will tell me I will need memory care in old age, please share.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
I don’t have a crystal ball, but history is instructive.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
For instance, vibrations moving through a crystal lattice can be described as quasiparticles known as phonons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 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
It reached into its pouch and held a small white quartz crystal to its mouth.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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The method allows scientists to examine crystals that formed inside magma and measure microscopic gas bubbles trapped within them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fani, a Brentwood artist, considers her collection an extension of her art and has embellished some with Swarovski crystals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Engineers are already investigating advanced metamaterials and photonic crystals designed for specific laser wavelengths.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 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
He once built a radio using crystals instead of electricity to pick up broadcasts from Warsaw and Białystok and even Kraków.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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
The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath.
From Lost Face by Jack London
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
Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
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