crystallize

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“When things crystallize like this, it brings out the pitchforks and the torches,” said Marc Cenedella, CEO of the jobs platform Ladders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Outlook statements from the wave of earnings reports expected over the next two weeks will crystallize that view.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

The book didn’t crystallize until April, after a conversation with Jonathan White, a captain in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

The extreme pressure inside the planet could cause that carbon to crystallize, potentially forming diamonds deep below the surface.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

Images crystallize ideas—and the image of a double-helical molecule that carried the instructions to build, run, repair, and reproduce humans crystallized the optimism and wonder of the 1950s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee