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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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When hosting A-listers and models at his London townhouse, Mert Alas has a recipe for memorable dinner parties: Caviar pasta, Edwardian crystal and gin “golden martinis.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

"I don't have a crystal ball to know what happens next," he told Amazon Prime.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

See, what happened was that his crystal ball was misfiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Researchers observed a process called nanoscale 'twinning', in which tiny sections of the metal's crystal structure rearrange into mirror-image patterns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The problem was they had no crystal ball.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Lithium fluoride crystals eliminate that step, allowing researchers to inspect the tracks directly with a standard fluorescence microscope.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Anthony Cheetham and Ram Seshadri went through a random sample of the supposed new crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The researchers have now described a new method for analyzing the information stored in these crystals, offering insights into both cosmic radiation levels and the performance of the detectors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

During the uncrewed Artemis I mission in late November and early December 2022, Orion traveled around the Moon carrying more than 10,000 tiny crystals embedded inside two human-shaped mannequins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Gen had to swear on her past, present, and future lives that she would never reveal the location of the crystals for as long as she lived.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. 

From Lost Face by Jack London

Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King


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