crystal

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

I’m obsessed with cutlery, silverware, old china, porcelain and crystal glasses, like my Edwardian crystal ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

This occurs alongside a localized change in the crystal structure itself.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 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

“This is enough for tonight. Come, before they wake up,” it said, and then held the white quartz crystal close to its mouth.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

When these newly formed regions encounter the boundaries separating neighboring crystals, they produce concentrated areas of stress.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From BBC ● 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

The fluorescent lithium fluoride detectors aboard Artemis I were manufactured using the Czochralski method, a technique for growing crystals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Her dress was made of stars plucked from the sky, and the whorls of crystals in her gray mask glittered.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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 Theodore Dreiser

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

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