glass
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His research will examine reaction pathways and rates associated with silicate dissolution, repolymerization, carbonation, glass formation, and silicone synthesis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Nadia places a pillow over her head to protect her face from flying glass.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The imposing, stylish set is a two-story white house built to scale by designer Saul Kim, with glass walls facing the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
I was sitting in the passenger seat, two glass containers on my lap.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
As they prepared to head home on Monday, campers gathered for one final toast—with glasses of Kool-Aid, of course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
On Christmas the following year, he noticed what he thought was a smudge on his glasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
I was in my mid-20s and not really a scotch drinker when my grandfather took me up there and we ordered two of the best glasses either of us had ever had.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Meta glasses, the brand used by Vallely, are the market leader in the smart glasses boom, with the company saying more than seven million pairs have been sold to date.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
I wipe away the sticky circled residue left by half-drunk glasses, and I close the books splayed open with broken spines and tuck them back on the shelf.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
As soon as brown timber dust flies around a room it ceases to be a place in which surfboards can be shaped and glassed.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2017
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
The Board Factory also offers shaping space to board builders and has a complete glassing factory, for boards that are shaped elsewhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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