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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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Some studies suggest that carbon may crystallize into diamonds deep inside these planets.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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

A new world of opportunities is starting to crystallize for them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Many places on Earth seem suddenly to crystallize out, revealing an intricate pattern of squares and rectangles, straight lines and circles.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

To Poovey, that term crystallizes a way of thinking in which there is "no agreement on anything, including that facts do exist and should exist."

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

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

The recent gyrations have crystallized a new reality in a market where fortunes can rise or fall with just a handful of trillion-dollar companies: Volatility is back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

This year marks the 20th anniversary of “Love Is My Religion,” the Grammy-winning album that launched his solo career and crystallized a personal philosophy he still carries today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Now, in death, this constancy crystallized and became something else entirely: he was an old familiar jokester cast—with surprising effect—in the tragic role.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“To the victor nations go the spoils,” Anton wrote in a 2019 essay in Foreign Policy, crystallizing a worldview that sees international relations as zero-sum competition where might makes right.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2026

Villarreal: “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” open with these crystallizing moments for the main characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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

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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