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
When light enters a snowflake, the complex structure of the ice crystals scatter the light into the seven colours of the rainbow.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
Every snowflake is separate and falls without a sound.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
"I'm optimistic that we're all snowflakes in that snowball that's getting bigger and bigger."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Not to be a bummer, but come summer, you might just find yourself missing the snowflakes.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
Similar to how snowflakes stick together to build a snowball, tiny particles were drawn together by gravity into larger clusters.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Thick snowflakes confetti the lorries and pedestrians arriving at this remote mountain pass.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Not real ones, but cutout paper snowflakes, bordering all the chalkboards.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
