glass
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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