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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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On a day of defiance in east Manchester, City's fans made their feelings crystal clear in their first top-flight home game since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

This emphasis resulted in the design of reliquaries that made visible the relics contained within translucent materials like rock crystal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

To make this possible, the researchers developed a system built around a special crystal containing thorium atoms, manufactured at TU Wien.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

“We felt like legally it was crystal clear, and we had authority. So we called the trusted contact, her adult daughter. She responded immediately, and said, ‘I’m so glad to hear from you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

All three children remembered how the fortune-teller had used a crystal ball to summon spirits from Beyond the Veil.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Those crystals eventually become large enough to fall as rain or snow, depending on the temperatures below.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

This approach to weather modification, now more than 80-years-old, involves using planes and drones to disperse compounds such as silver iodide into clouds to form ice crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"These small crystals allow us to go back in time and learn about the major changes to Earth's ancient landscapes," Stockli said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Parisi traveled to Oklahoma to obtain the Ames rock core from the Oklahoma Geological Survey, extracted zircon crystals from the material, and helped determine their ages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Dimple imagined little crystals of disapproval forming along the phone line.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019

Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. 

From Lost Face by Jack London

Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King


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