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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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Taylor & Byrne is new, all glass and light; Cathcarts is dark wood and padded chairs; one assumes that earlier teams have occupied the space going back a century or more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

He then set about connecting the two dwellings “by way of a graceful glass corridor.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

A trio of glass panels removed from an abandoned building in Ciudad Juárez still bears the missing-persons posters that were hung there years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I won a dinner at the Blue Goose Café and once a glass cooking dish.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

With unruly hair, round glasses, an affable demeanor and a taste for V-neck sweaters, Amodei is worlds away from the corporate executive archetype -- and seems to be motivated by something his peers are not.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Officers told the station the man was recording reactions on his Meta glasses and posting them on social media to create viral content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Meta announced the third generation of its flagship Ray-Ban smart glasses, its first camera-free audio glasses, lightweight Meta VR glasses and the keychain-sized Muse Charm.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

So, do the military plane flyovers, cue the performances, fill the wine the glasses, Kritenbrink says.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The man lowers his field glasses, looks at me, and shouts, “Smew!”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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 chef, Tanguy Laviale, 35, presides over a small open kitchen at the end of the rustic-chic dining room, which looks on a glassed inner courtyard planted with aromatic herbs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 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

Inside a glassed display fridge are orderly rows of yogurt cartons and bottled dooght, the fermented and salted drink of ancient Persia.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2013

He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again.

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

Chouinard says Patagonia is still working on a sophisticated glassing procedure necessary to offer a finished surfboard with these added flex characteristics.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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