glass
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The body was said to be bulletproof to a 9mm handgun, with “armored” window glass to boot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
It was not helped by inauspicious introduction to the public in 2019 when Musk attempted to show off the Cybertruck's apparently unbreakable glass, only for it to shatter during a live demonstration.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
“Through a magnifying glass, the decorations revealed a hidden world,” Bardo observes of a piece of gold-encrusted jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Instead of becoming usable glass, they begin to break down, damaging their structure and producing unwanted impurities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
When she had filled her chest with air, she closed her eyes, lifted the glass to her lips, and drained it down.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“We’ll eventually have glasses where you can see people in neighboring dimensions,” Biondich says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
By turning molten glass into a material whose chemistry can be deliberately adjusted, the discovery offers a new route toward specialized glasses with properties that conventional manufacturing techniques could not easily produce.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Some of them know they need glasses but haven’t gotten their eyes checked or bought their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
What may change is whether people watch it on their phone or their TV or, you know, through AI glasses, but the visual component is still stronger for everyone than anything else.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
He put his glasses back on and looked at me.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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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
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
We end up at an area that’s glassed off, with people passing in and out of glass doors.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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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
Labels that do in-house glassing have been able to absorb this change easier, while some of the bigger brands that do contract glassing are getting hit hardest.
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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