glass
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Every barrier broken is a notch in a glass ceiling, and the ceiling does not care much whether the person who cracked it got to walk all the way through.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Instead the AI invented several bizarre concoctions, from bacon and eggs floating in a glass of cola - a confusion between "soda" and "soda bread" - to chips poking out of muffins.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
On Monday, cleanup crews and firefighters cleared shattered glass and other debris from the streets of Paris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Retractable glass doors connect the interior to an outdoor terrace, allowing the living spaces to open directly onto the scenic surroundings.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
She caught Billy’s eye and held up her empty glass.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Reality Labs is the company's hardware division which is developing devices like AI-powered glasses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
For a brief time, he went to the gym without contacts or glasses, intentionally blurring his vision to reduce the risk of temptation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
O'Connell said the glasses had boosted his confidence "massively".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
However, concerns have been raised about the use of the technology, particularly ones that have a camera and can record video - although O'Connell's glasses do not have a camera.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
She put her reading glasses on, read a line of her prepared remarks to herself, took the glasses off, looked at the audience, and repeated the words.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
The CD isn’t glassed in, and spins freely.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018
As soon as brown timber dust flies around a room it ceases to be a place in which surfboards can be shaped and glassed.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2017
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
When they came back to the study after dinner, his father closed the door—something he hardly ever did—and reached for a volume in the glassed case behind his desk.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
Dad and I sat on a couple of logs, glassing occassionally, as William called with both his mouth and the coffee can contraption.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Vocabulary lists containing glass
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