crystal

What makes you think you have a better crystal ball than full-time traders with collectively trillions of dollars at stake?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The researchers found that the animals' curiosity was strongest immediately after they encountered the crystal and slowly faded over time, a pattern similar to the way novelty wears off in humans.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

"It's crystal clear: The language of the act provides the president power to create national monuments," Thomas Delehanty, a lawyer for Earthjustice, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

These special pathways allow electrons to travel along the edges of the material and are protected by the symmetry of the crystal lattice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Theirs was a well-stocked nursery indeed, thanks to their former governess, but a crystal ball was not an everyday classroom item, even in Miss Lumley’s day.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Chimpanzees do not normally transport objects in their mouths, so the researchers suggest Sandy may have been concealing the crystals, behavior that could indicate she regarded them as valuable.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

To investigate whether an attraction to crystals might be one of them, researchers gave two groups of enculturated chimpanzees at the Rainfer Foundation access to crystals.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

A second experiment tested whether the chimpanzees could recognize smaller quartz crystals similar in size to those collected by ancient hominins.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

By combining the observations from both experiments, the team concluded that transparency and geometric shape appear to be the features that make crystals especially attractive.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

He remembered an island, a cave lit with soft glowing crystals, a dinner table on the beach tended by invisible air spirits.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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 Dreiser, Theodore

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 London, Jack

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

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 Dreiser, Theodore