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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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Its buildings, made of limestone, glass, cedar slats and copper, blend with their surroundings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"I have broken a few glass ceilings along the way," she told Elle magazine this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Using Raman spectroscopy, a technique that identifies substances by examining how they interact with light, they found no detectable signature of oxygen gas in the glass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

You ascend quickly via its glass elevator, and the Endeavour and its components shift in size and sensation as you climb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

I leaned against a piece of glass in the window to stop the pounding in my head.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

It would be a little neighborhood bistro, the sort of place where the wine comes in mismatched stemless glasses thrifted from estate sales.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Seoul's education ministry's new measures to prevent cheating using smart glasses, announced Thursday, included assigning a "designated staff member" at each examination centre to identify suspicious eyewear.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

And the company has sold plenty of them: more than 7 million pairs of smart glasses in 2025.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The underlying concept has a surprisingly familiar application: the polarized light technology used in modern 3D movie glasses to create the illusion of depth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

"I agree," said Specimen, pushing up his thick glasses with a long, grubby forefinger.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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 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

Tickets are sold at a tiny glassed booth.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2013

The window wasn’t glassed, and so all sorts of small creatures could come in through the bars.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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


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