crystal

Awards columnist Glenn Whipp has looked into his crystal ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

This behavior arises from the topology of their electronic bands, which describes broad features of the quantum structure of electronic states that are protected by crystal symmetries.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

Just because your intentions are crystal clear doesn’t mean you specified them out loud.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Making these parts requires the blade to be “grown” in a vacuum furnace as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, according to Nigel Chiang, an analyst at SemiAnalysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

She tucked the crystal beside the conjure-cameo she wore, the carved medallion of her mama's and papa's faces.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Flooding can lead to immediate, extensive damage such as moisture-activated growth of salt crystals, loss of painted decoration and, potentially, structural collapse.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Fani, a Brentwood artist, considers her collection an extension of her art and has embellished some with Swarovski crystals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Those regions then expanded through the material, much like ice crystals growing through liquid water.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

My face stung from the driven sleet, and my eyelashes were coated with ice crystals.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. 

From Lost Face by Jack London

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie 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

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