glass
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On Sunday morning in Paris, residents surveyed the aftermath, which included the smashed glass frontages of designer stores including Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Versace.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Occasionally, someone stole one, apparently deciding that a restaurant pager belonged in the same category of souvenir as a pebbled Coke glass.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
A glass of lemon-wedge water for me; my date, however, found the beverage menu deeply intriguing, ordering Glenlivet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“This is one area we’re not quite confident in,” Pinkerton said as we watched the robot attempt to align a glass on the dishwasher’s prongs with motions suggestive of a claw-machine arm.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
He nodded back, and the light streaming in from the stained glass window glinted gold on his slicked-back tawny hair.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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O'Connell said the glasses had boosted his confidence "massively".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Look for new suites with plush padding, longer lie-flat beds and nifty touches like a hook for your glasses, plus a revamped food and alcohol menu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
District Judge who sentenced Holmes in November 2022 to more than 11 years in prison, Evans said he didn’t initially recognize the Theranos founder, who was wearing a sun hat and oversize glasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
These glasses were passed on to Peter Parker in “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” before they were acquired by the film’s villain for his nefarious plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Celia’s behind her with a bottle of seltzer water and three glasses.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
He shouldered his rifle and glassed the intersection.
From Slate ● May 2, 2012
A glassed case in the corner held the curios he had collected—specimens of butterflies, a rare arrowhead, a curious rock shaped like a human profile.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
For years, Loehr has been a proponent of EPS foam, a readily available PU alternative that uses a different shaping technique and glassing process.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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