crystal
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District Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s ruling that the law “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Let’s be crystal clear: There’s no such thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Together, these components form hybrid quasiparticles called Wigner crystal polarons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
"What is crystal clear is that the families are not receiving the proper help and support that they need – they live with life long disabilities."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Your pirate play will be a smash hit in the West End. The crystal ball don’t lie, honey. Your show is a hit! Or was. Or will be.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
When crystals begin forming earlier, however, the magma becomes thicker and more viscous.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The study, published in Nature Communications, found that intense heat can dissolve tiny existing crystals that normally act as "seeds" for the growth of new crystals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
There's a child-like quality to festival make-up, he says, so embrace it - think playful colour and crystals.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
For example, I’m sure you would know at this point not to look down into the test tube to see if Gene dumped the crystals in there.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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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
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
She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser
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
She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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