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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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Other discoveries include glass beads, stone tools, nails, and animal bones from meals that included turtle, freshwater fish, and turkey.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Read: There have been updates over time, but the original glass etching featuring a mythical unicorn remains on a window in the study.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Wales is the only UK nation to include glass in its DRS and has faced a backlash from the drinks industry which warned of increased prices and reduced choice.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

A police pursuit early Wednesday through Los Angeles ended in dramatic fashion when the fleeing vehicle smashed into a row of parked cars, injuring the driver and scattering glass and debris across the road.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

I looked through the glass in the door to the shop, but Betsie, behind her little cashier’s desk, was talking to a customer.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Surveillance is starting to feel ubiquitous, between online bots tracking our every move to cameras everywhere, including the faces of other people wearing AI glasses.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Meta, Oakley and Ray-Ban face a criminal complaint in Germany over whether the companies’ AI glasses breach the country’s strict privacy rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

HateAid, a Berlin nonprofit, filed the complaint with the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime, arguing the new glasses allow for the secret filming of others in public.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The couple provided their guests with special glasses and filters bought months in advance so they could view the partial eclipse over Suffolk.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The way she’d adjust her glasses with the back of her wrist when her fingers were caked with dough.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Wearing a plain khaki T-shirt and round-rimmed glassed, Griner was ushered a courtroom by police at Khimki District Court outside Moscow, Griner held up personal photographs before taking a seat in the defendant's cage.

From Reuters Aug. 2, 2022

In the end, the president took a brief walk with Mr. Kim around the hotel’s pool, shook his hand and then canceled lunch in a glassed pavilion.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2019

Kelp bobbed in the shallows, and the rockpools were glassed with ice.

From The Guardian Apr. 12, 2018

The actual window had been glassed off and transformed into a tableau mordant of how it might have looked 50 years ago, complete with repositories of musty school text books.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2013

Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Rubbert was by himself on the face of a cliff in Glacier glassing for grizzlies when a sow grizzly and her cub suddenly appeared.

From Washington Times Apr. 7, 2018

I did bricklaying, fibre glassing, I was a nanny, drove those rickshaw things, worked in a sandwich store – anything to get me from one place to the next.

From The Guardian Jun. 15, 2012

Andy Carroll is £3,500 lighter in the pocket after pleading guilty to accidentally glassing Michael Cook in a trendy Newcastle nightspot.

From The Guardian Oct. 25, 2010

The problem is not limited to materials, but also exists on the glassing side of the equation.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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