crystal
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"If I had a crystal ball I would just say 'guys, get in the jacuzzi and I will see you tomorrow'."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
“When your naming is crystal clear, people can tell at a glance what you have to offer,” Barrett said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
As always after a hurricane, the atmosphere was crystal clear.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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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
By dating zircon crystals taken from granite altered by the impact, the team determined that the meteorite struck about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
One leading idea involves magnetite, a magnetic mineral that may form tiny crystals inside an animal's body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Inside it, James could see a mass of tiny green things that looked like little stones or crystals, each one about the size of a grain of rice.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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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
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
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
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
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