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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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A fan appeared to throw a water bottle at the glass window, while others yelled and displayed their own middle fingers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Vinegar can be more like a gentle wake-up than a glass of water to the face.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Researchers analyzing metallic iron inside impact glass from Chang'e-6 lunar soil have now identified face-centered cubic γ-Fe for the first time in natural lunar samples.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

One has doors, a heater and a glass sunroof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Would you like to come in for a glass of water?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Wall Street analysts are pessimistic on Lululemon, through the filter of their usually rose-colored glasses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Norway's government said Monday it wants a temporary ban on the use of smart glasses in certain public places, citing privacy concerns, notably recording images without the knowledge of those filmed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Icy cold glasses of Tell the Truth, a light and lemony ale, sat before them on a high-top table beside a stenographer’s notebook and a laptop.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

My old grandpa was so excited he had forgotten all about his glasses.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

When they came back to the study after dinner, his father closed the door—something he hardly ever did—and reached for a volume in the glassed case behind his desk.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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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