facet
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In France, Yuka is one facet of a wider food-tracking phenomenon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
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
The Panthers were dominating every facet of the game, but fumbles and penalties had kept Permian from leading 35-0 at the half.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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In some cases the same model has exhibited several of these facets:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
I’ve thought about it when I examine the facets of my career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Haaland is the leader for ruthless efficiency, all facets that feed into a race that could be decided by the smallest detail.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
This Juneteenth, we should try to confront and reclaim this holiday’s contradictory history, in all its facets.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Shay’s long-range hoverboard was thicker, and glimmered with the facets of solar cells.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Her fractured, broken, faceted statue is Cubist in structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
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 video is one of 40 works that make up “Water Memories,” a poetically faceted pocket-size show about the material and symbolic role of water in Native American life.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
They were cool, measuring, as faceted as finely cut jewels; they traveled over her face methodically, cataloguing her eyelashes, her nose, her mouth, her chin.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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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
And from afar the vertical faceting of the Shard’s facade reduces the impression of bulk.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2013
Sometimes he’d recut diamonds or consult on high-level faceting projects.
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 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
If almost any clear, colorless facetted stone is placed in the sunlight and a card held before it to receive the reflections, it will be seen that rainbow-like reflections appear on the card.
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
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 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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