prism
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Iran’s ruling elite sees everything through the prism of popular discontent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Copper’s price rally has to be understood through this prism, Cryer maintains.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It’s certainly the prism through which we see all the choices Carol makes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
They also examined spectra, which are created when light is separated into its component wavelengths, much like a prism creating a rainbow.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The north wall of the Library was made entirely of glass, with doors leading to a terraced greenhouse that refracted light like a prism.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Its unfurling will reveal an image of the cosmos overlain with blooming flowers and splintered prisms emanating rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Traditional spectrometers work by splitting light into its component colors using prisms or gratings, then measuring the intensity of each wavelength.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
Images afterward show bags were placed around a few of Golestan’s massive chandeliers to catch any falling crystal prisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing prism
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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