crystallize
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“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
Materials containing magnesium and calcium often form hard, dense crusts when they crystallize.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
“However, the economic and geopolitical environment has become more volatile. And this has made it more likely that a new shock or a combination of shocks could cause several vulnerabilities to crystallize at once.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He had handed over to her all the good crystalline DNA used in his original work and had agreed to confine his studies to other DNA, which he afterward found did not crystallize.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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
Still, the figure crystallizes something we’ve all felt for a while — that boomers are giving more money to their millennial or Gen Z offspring than past generations.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025
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
My devotion crystallized right there, and it never left.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 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
Hugo said, “That's never real crystallized ginger you have in that jar, right up at the top?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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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