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Decades before coaches began to insist their players be 'multi-dimensional' cricketers rather than only contributing in one facet of the game, Sobers was the ultimate all-round sportsman.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Gans wrote about this facet of the history recently in Slate.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
“We have key initiatives under way in our gear, ski school and dining businesses, as well as every facet of guest engagement and communication,” Katz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
In a show built around characters who fought to obscure nearly every facet of their true inner lives, Maddy was refreshingly, sometimes brutally herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
“But each facet would still have only three dimensions.”
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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While those two careers couldn’t be any more different, with the skill and determination it takes to do both it’s no wonder she’s been able to score big in multiple facets of life lately.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Anduril has steadily expanded into nearly all facets of defense contracting, from jets to submarines and counterdrone systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Post game, Bellingham said: "The game is split into loads of different facets – technical, tactical, and, the biggest one is psychological, managing adversity."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
This Juneteenth, we should try to confront and reclaim this holiday’s contradictory history, in all its facets.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Subsistence is a convenient facet of society with which to start, since it in turn affected other facets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Alongside his own survey of Mont Blanc published in a monumental chromolithograph is his modest diagram of its underlying crystalline structure, as if it were a faceted gem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The main stage also has a thick concrete ceiling, and its subtly faceted acoustic wall panels, embedded with micro-perforations, double as sound absorbers and diffusers, subtly tuning the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
"There is a multi faceted transformation that needs to take place" for established automakers such as BMW, said Evangelos Simoudis, a Silicon Valley venture capital investor and expert on vehicle software strategies.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023
In a moment of great danger, “the bergs are many, lavender and faceted, when the air is full of floating ice crystals.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2023
I quickly examined the Crystal Key, tilting it up to study its glittering, faceted surface.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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The cubist faceting of both figures and ground gives each panel a density of surface and a propulsive, lilting energy, like swing jazz but with spiked edges.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020
For instance, it’s easy to read visual similarities and divergences in the Cubist faceting of paired landscapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
Here she has done a good job of sculpting and faceting the building’s shape, such that from some angles it might be thought to soar.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2015
The most remarkable here in terms of size and faceting include the exquisitely simple “Shah Jahan Diamond” and the startlingly kaleidoscopic brilliant-cut stone known as the Idol’s Eye.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
He examines a copy of Streeters Precious Stones and Gems; drawings of cleavage panes; trigonometric charts used for faceting.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Kerans watches the "countless reflections of the sun move across the surface in huge sheets of fire, like the blazing facetted eyes of gigantic insects".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
The rubbing down process does not leave a facetted surface, but only a coarse roughly rounded or flattened surface.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
A facetted carbuncle accompanied by ten little twinkling emeralds; &c. &c.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
The polishing of stones, whether cabochon or facetted, is accomplished by the use of very finely powdered abrasives such as corundum powder, tripoli, pumice, putty powder, etc.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
Recently it has become common to polish the tops of colored stones with a smooth unfacetted, slightly convex surface, the back being facetted in either the brilliant or the step arrangement.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
In general, however, the slitting or cleaving, the rubbing down to shape, the smoothing out of all scratches and the facetting and polishing are done somewhat similarly by all lapidaries.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
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