prism
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We only know them through the prism of men: Jane lusts after Yoga Dude, Coco rages at Roger, Sophie is bullied by her boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s certainly the prism through which we see all the choices Carol makes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
They also examined spectra, which are created when light is separated into its component wavelengths, much like a prism creating a rainbow.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
View their confidence through the prism of professional pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Claire had always seemed to see the palette of her brain, had been able to sort the colors through a prism so she could understand how Maya felt without Maya having to say a word.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
Images afterward show bags were placed around a few of Golestan’s massive chandeliers to catch any falling crystal prisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Within the blood itself he could perceive its separate cells, and see their colors in his consciousness, and the prisms of their molecules, and all of it was awake now, gathering power.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing prism
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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