snowflake

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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The sensors also have an aerosol probe that measures particulate matter, because dust helps with snowflake formation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

These colours are reflected so many times within a snowflake that they combine to make white light, and this is what is reflected back to our eyes.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024

A snowflake accepted her invitation, and she felt a momentary pinprick of cold on the pad of her bare finger.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu