crystal
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“I think Warren wanted to be crystal clear that Greg is making the capital allocation decisions,” said Chris Bloomstran, chief investment officer of Semper Augustus Investments Group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
If you have a crystal ball that will tell me I will need memory care in old age, please share.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Awards columnist Glenn Whipp has looked into his crystal ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I don’t have a crystal ball, but history is instructive.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
She hopped off Nathan’s backpack and made a secure point on a crystal edge.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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The method allows scientists to examine crystals that formed inside magma and measure microscopic gas bubbles trapped within them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
I love to incorporate crystals and rhinestones as an element to my fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Flooding can lead to immediate, extensive damage such as moisture-activated growth of salt crystals, loss of painted decoration and, potentially, structural collapse.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Fani, a Brentwood artist, considers her collection an extension of her art and has embellished some with Swarovski crystals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mrs Jenkins took one look at the fat little brown mouse who was still chewing a bit of banana and she let out a shriek that rattled the crystals on the chandelier.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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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 paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie 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
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
Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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