crystal
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For the uninitiated, a sound bath is where a practitioner plays crystal or Tibetan sound bowls, gongs and chimes in a soothing way.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
District Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s ruling that the law “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Let’s be crystal clear: There’s no such thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their work explains how these quasiparticles arise through the coupling of optically generated excitons with the collective movement of electrons in the crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
We were far from Aunt Fannie Fenimore’s crystal ball.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Rather than appearing smoothly throughout the material, it began in isolated regions that expanded outward, resembling the way ice crystals begin forming in liquid water.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
They commonly occur when the bladder does not empty completely, leaving concentrated urine that can turn into crystals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
She calls cows to breakfast with a holler, extemporizes on the Bible in full paragraphs and keeps a collection of high-vibration crystals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Then Chicho places a tiara on my head, my first ever, with sparkly crystals.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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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 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
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
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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