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
We only know them through the prism of men: Jane lusts after Yoga Dude, Coco rages at Roger, Sophie is bullied by her boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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 cut-glass panes of the living room cabinet prism my reflection into a dozen distorted pieces.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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
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
In the back of the room was a marble fireplace, big as a sepulchre, and a globed gasolier—dripping with prisms and strings of crystal beading—sparkled in the dim.
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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