crystallize
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“Maybe in 24 hours, when things crystallize with the deal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Materials containing magnesium and calcium often form hard, dense crusts when they crystallize.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
A new world of opportunities is starting to crystallize for them.
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
She felt them gathering their strength inside her, felt each passing second crystallize into a map of strategic striking points wrapping around Wick’s body.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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“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
But poetry helps them cope, and in Dawson’s eyes, this is where the message of the film crystallizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
As frost crystallizes on the windows, velvet, silk, wool, faux fur and tweeds come to the fore inside.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 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
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of “Love Is My Religion,” the Grammy-winning album that launched his solo career and crystallized a personal philosophy he still carries today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
That vibe crystallized in the first quarter, when products were already pressured by tariffs, and consumer sentiment has taken a nose dive since then.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 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
Now, in death, this constancy crystallized and became something else entirely: he was an old familiar jokester cast—with surprising effect—in the tragic role.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
While the Long Valley Caldera itself is old and its magma is cooling and crystallizing, “there are extremely young lava flows” along the nearby Mono-Inyo Craters chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
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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