facet
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“They really bring a cinematic eye to that facet of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
This show collects art from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s in the first display to examine that overlooked facet of her creative mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Von Rumpel’s particular gift is for diamonds: he can facet and polish stones as well as any Aryan jeweler in Europe, and he often spots fakes at a glance.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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In some cases the same model has exhibited several of these facets:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
This allowed the actors the unusual opportunity to explore new facets of their characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
A glance at Scheffler's record shows metronomic consistency across all facets of his game.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Then there are all the facets of his campaign that remind us he’s new here, that he’s maybe just throwing spaghetti at the wall.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
He had few facets and very little versatility.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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I’m pleased to report that the car’s most beguiling bit of cabin jewelry—the faceted gear selector, like a steampunk gaming cube embedded in the center console—made it through to the latest redesign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
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
The septon removed a faceted crystal sphere from the soft cloth bag at his waist.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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
The figures are rendered in a self-consciously arty style — call it "mass-market modern" — that is a kind of Cubist faceting squashed flat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2014
It appears Dupont was making money before the war by faceting spinels into false diamonds for dowagers and baronesses.
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
Large quantities of hornblende are also met with at Levesque Harbor, Bellot Strait, composed of facetted crystals agglutinated together into large masses, forming a crystalline hornblendic gneiss.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
When completely facetted the brilliant is finished and requires only to be cleaned, when it is ready for sale.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Wade, Frank Bertram
A facetted carbuncle accompanied by ten little twinkling emeralds; &c. &c.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas
Thence his eyes wandered over the town to far away where the ships' lights shone, and the pier glowed—a little illuminated, facetted pavilion like a gem of yellow light.
From The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Wade, Frank Bertram
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