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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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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

“However, the economic and geopolitical environment has become more volatile. And this has made it more likely that a new shock or a combination of shocks could cause several vulnerabilities to crystallize at once.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 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

Many places on Earth seem suddenly to crystallize out, revealing an intricate pattern of squares and rectangles, straight lines and circles.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“This situation perfectly crystallizes the global nature of infectious diseases,” Bhadelia said.

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

A new AP-NORC poll released this week crystallizes the public’s pessimism.

From Barron's Dec. 16, 2025

As he speaks these words, and I’m listening from my seat in the ballroom balcony, something crystallizes.

From Seattle Times Apr. 12, 2024

To Poovey, that term crystallizes a way of thinking in which there is "no agreement on anything, including that facts do exist and should exist."

From Salon Jun. 19, 2023

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

What the launch of Kimi 3 has crystallized is the realization that the gap between China’s best AI plays, and the most sophisticated American technologies, is narrowing rapidly.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

"Iron is crystallized in oxide nanoparticles making the cells superparamagnetic and reactive to magnetic fields. We found by far the strongest magnetic response in liver tissue," adds Prof. Ulf Wiedwald, from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

“So all of these things are having really profound ripple effects. This is a situation where you really are seeing crystallized the need for bio preparedness.”

From Salon May 11, 2026

“The whole season crystallized in that moment, and as we were leaving, Mike’s like, ‘I know exactly what we’re going to do and we’re doing it in the South of France.’

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 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

It also fears crystallizing financial losses on its portfolio by selling bonds, preferring to realize losses slowly by paying more interest on reserves than it earns on bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 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

It also was a peek at a potentially bright future that has been a long time crystallizing for the Ducks, who have missed the Stanley Cup playoffs each of the last five seasons.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2023

At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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