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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

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

“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

Now, however, I knew that genes could crystallize; hence they must have a regular structure that could be solved in a straightforward fashion.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

This suggests that the mantle cumulates, minerals that accumulated as the Moon's magma ocean crystallized, do not differ substantially in composition between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

"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

These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

It shows Ms. Van Herpen crystallizing into a force the couture could not resist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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

The supervisors’ decision was “a very crystallizing moment,” Armstrong said on the phone afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 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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