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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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“We felt like legally it was crystal clear, and we had authority. So we called the trusted contact, her adult daughter. She responded immediately, and said, ‘I’m so glad to hear from you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

It can be a liquid or a crystal form too.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I mean, it’s unbelievable how much of this is done with the pads of his fingers. And all of his fingerprints and thumbprints are crystal clear in the paint.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes it crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy,” Judge Cooper found, and the board’s “unilateral say-so” can’t change this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It is crystal clear, Sancho, that you don't know what you're saying," Don Quixote affirmed.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

The team found that time crystals located as far as 40 micrometers apart could still synchronize.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Instead of mechanical vibrations, the time crystals become coupled through the movement of spin-polarized electrons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Cloud seeding involves manipulating existing clouds, such as by dropping salt crystals or silver iodide into them, to help produce more rain.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tourtsakis explained it to me like this: The process relied on the crystals in the room, which were quantum entangled with particles out in space.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Nathan looked at the crystal and then back at the crystals at the top of the ceiling.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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 paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

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

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

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




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