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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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In that footage, shattered glass, empty shelves, cracked computer screens and scattered debris can be seen in the wake of the burglary.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Gabi Bradbury, who has been sober for three years, described much the same life: bars, concerts, festivals and nights out with friends, only without alcohol in her glass.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne and seized center stage all in one action.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

It can feel luxurious to wander a pharmacy where toiletries aren’t locked behind glass, a simple convenience many Americans no longer have.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The woman held out a glass of iced tea.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Surveillance is starting to feel ubiquitous, between online bots tracking our every move to cameras everywhere, including the faces of other people wearing AI glasses.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

HateAid, a Berlin nonprofit, filed the complaint with the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime, arguing the new glasses allow for the secret filming of others in public.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Meta, Oakley and Ray-Ban face a criminal complaint in Germany over whether the companies’ AI glasses breach the country’s strict privacy rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

If you can't travel to see next year's spectacle or don't want to keep your solar glasses for future partial eclipses in the UK, then you might consider donating them to others.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Emma holds up a flashcard with a skinny Korean boy in wire-rimmed glasses.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

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

The chef, Tanguy Laviale, 35, presides over a small open kitchen at the end of the rustic-chic dining room, which looks on a glassed inner courtyard planted with aromatic herbs.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2017

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

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

Chouinard says Patagonia is still working on a sophisticated glassing procedure necessary to offer a finished surfboard with these added flex characteristics.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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