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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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She scraped my skin with firm, painful strokes, and then moved on to cupping, placing glass suction cups across my back and shoulders.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Substantial double-arch sliding glass doors that pocket into walls are mirrored on east and west walls.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

She said Donaldson would have had a glass of wine at events but she never saw him drinking too much.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

“Many people can’t get through it. They can’t swallow well enough. They can’t talk well enough. They can’t hold the glass or mix the drink on their own.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

I direct my voice through the round hole in the glass, twist my ponytail around my finger.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Freya is also worried about Meta glasses, having seen videos on social media of women after nights out without them being aware, as it is hard to tell between them and typical glasses.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

To prove authenticity, members have resorted to writing numbers directly onto pint glasses or photographing clusters of empty bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Dressed in a Fendi shirt and Gucci glasses, Matlala did give evidence at a parallel corruption inquiry in parliament last November.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

He wears glasses like me and is now telling the story of his father to the nation, as I have for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

I flip to the back of the book—the inside of the jacket, where Dad’s author photo looks back at me—curly brownish-gray hair, thin-rimmed glasses, serious expression.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

"They were nearly glassed over, but the sound is too important," the airline said in 2016.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2020

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

From The Guardian Apr. 12, 2018

He shouldered his rifle and glassed the intersection.

From Slate May 2, 2012

He sat crosslegged in the leaves at the crest of a ridge and glassed the valley below them with the binoculars.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

After lunch, still driving, and having seen three more shooting-sized bucks, I asked Frank if we could get out of the truck and hike a bit, maybe do some glassing and stalking.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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