glass
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You can take a glass two-thirds full or a third empty view of that figure.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Many people can’t get through it. They can’t swallow well enough. They can’t talk well enough. They can’t hold the glass or mix the drink on their own.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
An oft-cited aphorism at BLS holds that a glass of water is never half full or half empty: it is 50% water and 50% air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers first used a vacuum pump to remove air from glass tubes, producing conditions that approximated the near emptiness of space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Without warning, we’re surrounded by the sound of breaking glass.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Freya is also worried about Meta glasses, having seen videos on social media of women after nights out without them being aware, as it is hard to tell between them and typical glasses.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Dressed in a Fendi shirt and Gucci glasses, Matlala did give evidence at a parallel corruption inquiry in parliament last November.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, Meta has been testing two features for its glasses that have drawn the ire of privacy advocates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He wears glasses like me and is now telling the story of his father to the nation, as I have for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He messes with the frame of his glasses.
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
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
If you did any preseason glassing for feeding bucks, you might have noticed does feeding in distinctly separate areas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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