crystallize
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As the CoAl deforms, parts of these interfaces crystallize and help generate new dislocations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Maybe in 24 hours, when things crystallize with the deal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Strong demand, solid early performances and improving profitability outlooks will crystallize the sector’s hold on markets and strengthen the industry’s case to skeptics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Even the Piker issue—the one that seems to crystallize so much of the anxiety there—he treated as over-indexed.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
She felt them gathering their strength inside her, felt each passing second crystallize into a map of strategic striking points wrapping around Wick’s body.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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As more material crystallizes, silicon dioxide becomes increasingly concentrated in the remaining melt.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“This situation perfectly crystallizes the global nature of infectious diseases,” Bhadelia said.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
That expansion crystallizes the yearslong flow of credit outside the tightly regulated banking system and into riskier, more opaque businesses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
But poetry helps them cope, and in Dawson’s eyes, this is where the message of the film crystallizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
The reality crystallizes for me, though, when Dad instructs us to take off our blindfolds and Debbie and Zara are standing in front of us.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"There's not a consensus, by any means, that's crystallized in the United States on what, if anything, to do about AI," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Opposition has crystallized in environmental concerns about data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The simulations showed that the frameworks of amorphous interfaces crystallized during deformation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
This artistic neverland is crystallized in the apartment building that has music pouring out of every floor when Ali rides the elevator.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
It crystallized in the mid- to late 1990s and, when it did, it had as profound an impact on the world as the first two flatteners.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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It shows Ms. Van Herpen crystallizing into a force the couture could not resist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But mainly, I credit Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who knows a good story when he sees one, crystallizing its potency with every camera choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Researchers leveraged state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy to reveal the structure in its natural state, rather than earlier techniques that required crystallizing vast quantities of identical molecules to form an artificial picture of their native structure.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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