crystal
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“I made it crystal clear: The second the fund is no longer independent, Helmsley is out,” Panzirer said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"We have been crystal clear that staff could face disciplinary action for any breaches, including the loss of their job and potential criminal prosecution," added a spokesman.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“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
“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
One wall of the cavern was crystal clear, and Roz noticed a lump in the ice.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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"Essentially, all of this happens because there is a physical relation between the size of a droplet and the size of ice crystals in the clouds and the frequency spectrum," she pointed out.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The crystals and lamé of their outfits played with the light from the disco ball hanging from the ceiling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
In the TU Dortmund experiments, the time crystals form inside a semiconductor made from gallium arsenide with small amounts of indium and silicon.
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
He once built a radio using crystals instead of electricity to pick up broadcasts from Warsaw and Białystok and even Kraków.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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 panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser
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
Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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