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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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Investors have been split over whether the ECB will soon pause its tightening campaign, as the trade-offs between containing inflation and damping economic growth crystallize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

He waited for it to crystallize and show its teeth on the edges of the cool quiet that had pooled in the Waystone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

A new AP-NORC poll released this week crystallizes the public’s pessimism.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

Coca-Cola’s ad crystallizes these fears, even though, as Shelly Palmer, a professor of advanced media in residence at Syracuse University, said in a recent blog post, it “truly sucks.”

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 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

The team crystallized the enzyme and studied it at the Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble, France.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"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

These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

There was one moment, before the sun had gone all the way down on that Sept. 11, when the spirit of national unity crystallized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

It shows Ms. Van Herpen crystallizing into a force the couture could not resist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Charli has been redefining and crystallizing her sound for over a decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

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

At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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