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"Their weight is known precisely. They therefore allow us to correctly interpret the scale's balance. Similarly, the glass beads allow us to draw the correct conclusions from the properties of the infrared radiation."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

When you look at films like that under a magnifying glass, they tend to fall apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Excimer lasers are used in semiconductor manufacturing, but the government’s work on laser fusion for energy and managing the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile shifted to glass lasers instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“They said it sounded like breaking glass, but I mean, it is glass,” Jordan says, laughing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A few moments after the maid leaves a new figure is approaching through the glass door—a boy several years younger than I am, thirteen or fourteen, pale and sallow-cheeked.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Others, including Google and Snap, are also preparing to roll out AI-powered glasses.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Pozar said he started the site after his girlfriend was approached by two men wearing the glasses and recording her, which "freaked her out".

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

“I describe it like having blurry vision your whole life and not realizing how clearly you can see, until you put glasses on,” Marquez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

It begins in a dim restaurant, glasses of wine giving off a burnished glow as the professor protagonist expounds on memory and the workings of the brain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Tickets are sold at a tiny glassed booth.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2013

He shouldered his rifle and glassed the intersection.

From Slate ● May 2, 2012

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

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

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

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi