crystallize
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In an earlier project, Gaston, Lambie, and Steenbergen used liquid gallium to crystallize zinc into intricate `snowflake' structures.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Maybe in 24 hours, when things crystallize with the deal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Strong demand, solid early performances and improving profitability outlooks will crystallize the sector’s hold on markets and strengthen the industry’s case to skeptics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Even the Piker issue—the one that seems to crystallize so much of the anxiety there—he treated as over-indexed.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
He waited for it to crystallize and show its teeth on the edges of the cool quiet that had pooled in the Waystone.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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As more material crystallizes, silicon dioxide becomes increasingly concentrated in the remaining melt.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“This situation perfectly crystallizes the global nature of infectious diseases,” Bhadelia said.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
That expansion crystallizes the yearslong flow of credit outside the tightly regulated banking system and into riskier, more opaque businesses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
Still, the figure crystallizes something we’ve all felt for a while — that boomers are giving more money to their millennial or Gen Z offspring than past generations.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025
The reality crystallizes for me, though, when Dad instructs us to take off our blindfolds and Debbie and Zara are standing in front of us.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"There's not a consensus, by any means, that's crystallized in the United States on what, if anything, to do about AI," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
There was one moment, before the sun had gone all the way down on that Sept. 11, when the spirit of national unity crystallized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
My devotion crystallized right there, and it never left.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
The simulations showed that the frameworks of amorphous interfaces crystallized during deformation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Pima was bigger than most of the light crew, but she was nothing against his father’s crystallized speed.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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It shows Ms. Van Herpen crystallizing into a force the couture could not resist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But mainly, I credit Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who knows a good story when he sees one, crystallizing its potency with every camera choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
“To the victor nations go the spoils,” Anton wrote in a 2019 essay in Foreign Policy, crystallizing a worldview that sees international relations as zero-sum competition where might makes right.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2026
There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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