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Their hope is that they will easily meet all their obligations with future revenue as consumers and businesses adopt AI in every facet of American life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“They really bring a cinematic eye to that facet of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
In a world where artificial intelligence threatens to upend every facet of work and life, some things still remain sacred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
“All right,” he said, with Ms eyes full of bark and a hideous scowl on Ms facet “All right. All right.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
Gloucester, who named three new signings in their starting line-up including Wales internationals Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake, completely outplayed their opponents in all facets of the match.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But lately, there’s been a greater appreciation for the various facets of Microsoft’s business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Even if you don’t, you might, as this hodgepodge of anecdotes, trivia and theories is less about stamps in particular and more about the compulsion to collect in all its facets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s as if all the things I’ve learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light....
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
Her fractured, broken, faceted statue is Cubist in structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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
In the Broadway Windows, one “Eternalism” skims across a faceted landscape that seems constructed from crumpled tinfoil.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
There was a keyhole in the very center of the door, and directly above it, three words were etched into the door’s glittering, faceted surface: CHARITY.
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
This will cast gentle natural light by day and uniform illumination by night for the first time on Mark Rothko’s 14 monumental black canvases, faceting the octagonal interior designed as a holistic work of art.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2019
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 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
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
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
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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