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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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As the CoAl deforms, parts of these interfaces crystallize and help generate new dislocations.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

“Maybe in 24 hours, when things crystallize with the deal.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

Even the Piker issue—the one that seems to crystallize so much of the anxiety there—he treated as over-indexed.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

“Today’s announcement creates a compelling opportunity that provides certainty and immediate returns for our shareholders, enabling them to crystallize the significant value generated during our strategic review,” IHS Chief Executive Officer Sam Darwish said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

Then, in mid-March, the data started to crystallize.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

“This situation perfectly crystallizes the global nature of infectious diseases,” Bhadelia said.

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

That expansion crystallizes the yearslong flow of credit outside the tightly regulated banking system and into riskier, more opaque businesses.

From Barron's Oct. 8, 2025

As frost crystallizes on the windows, velvet, silk, wool, faux fur and tweeds come to the fore inside.

From Seattle Times Dec. 1, 2023

It mostly works because Garcia, Gonzalez and Longoria agree on a poignant, yet not sanctimonious approach that crystallizes the specific fortitude of mining hope from dire struggle.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2023

The reality crystallizes for me, though, when Dad instructs us to take off our blindfolds and Debbie and Zara are standing in front of us.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The simulations showed that the frameworks of amorphous interfaces crystallized during deformation.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

What the launch of Kimi 3 has crystallized is the realization that the gap between China’s best AI plays, and the most sophisticated American technologies, is narrowing rapidly.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

“So all of these things are having really profound ripple effects. This is a situation where you really are seeing crystallized the need for bio preparedness.”

From Salon May 11, 2026

The challenges facing New Zealand’s forces have crystallized recently.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

It also fears crystallizing financial losses on its portfolio by selling bonds, preferring to realize losses slowly by paying more interest on reserves than it earns on bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

Villarreal: “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” open with these crystallizing moments for the main characters.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2024

There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2024

Researchers leveraged state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy to reveal the structure in its natural state, rather than earlier techniques that required crystallizing vast quantities of identical molecules to form an artificial picture of their native structure.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2023

At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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