prism
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As a child, Olivia Kelly came to understand personal finances through the prism of her mother’s divorce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
In her view, every decision on energy policy should be judged through the prism of whether it reduces prices.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
This structure consists of closely spaced parallel strips that interact with light similarly to a prism.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
The L.A.-based Iraqi painter Ali Eyal, who left his home country in 2017, experienced the fires through the prism of his tumultuous youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
She saw only her dreams of freedom turning bright and wild, like a rainbow glimpsed through a prism.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
Some were made with prisms that fan out the starlight, creating what's known as stellar spectra.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
Droplets of water sprinkled off the silvery head, catching the sunlight as they broke into thousands of tiny prisms.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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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