facet
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Because you’re so involved with every facet of “Colin,” how was it to just go in and be an actor for “Last Seen”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
As a general-purpose technology, artificial intelligence is rapidly making its way into every facet of the business world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
In France, Yuka is one facet of a wider food-tracking phenomenon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
As law, policy and regulation have penetrated deeper into every facet of life, the First Amendment right “to petition the government for the redress of grievances” has become of utmost importance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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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There are so many interesting facets of this story, and I wish that the film would have taken the time and the care to tell them.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
But lately, there’s been a greater appreciation for the various facets of Microsoft’s business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
"They outplayed us in all facets, they were patient and disciplined," said Cummins.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The imagination is one of our most mysterious facets.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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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
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
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
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
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
They are less expensive to cut than fully facetted stones and do not have the snappy brilliancy of the latter.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
The sloping surface of the upper cone is facetted with thirty-two facets in the full cut brilliant, while the lower cone receives twenty-four.
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
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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