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What the new catalog and Mr. Robbins’s winsome biography should be thanked for is their attention to another facet of Zurbarán’s art—his facility with still life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Decades before coaches began to insist their players be 'multi-dimensional' cricketers rather than only contributing in one facet of the game, Sobers was the ultimate all-round sportsman.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Gans wrote about this facet of the history recently in Slate.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
In a show built around characters who fought to obscure nearly every facet of their true inner lives, Maddy was refreshingly, sometimes brutally herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Von Rumpel’s particular gift is for diamonds: he can facet and polish stones as well as any Aryan jeweler in Europe, and he often spots fakes at a glance.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Anduril has steadily expanded into nearly all facets of defense contracting, from jets to submarines and counterdrone systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I’ve thought about it when I examine the facets of my career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Post game, Bellingham said: "The game is split into loads of different facets – technical, tactical, and, the biggest one is psychological, managing adversity."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
This Juneteenth, we should try to confront and reclaim this holiday’s contradictory history, in all its facets.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
However, it had not been my intention to analyse here the various facets of this small episode from years ago.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Alongside his own survey of Mont Blanc published in a monumental chromolithograph is his modest diagram of its underlying crystalline structure, as if it were a faceted gem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The workers check and replace the large plastic bulbs on the long strings of lights and then use pulleys and hoists to hang and sometimes muscle those long strands of faceted lights onto the branches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
"There is a multi faceted transformation that needs to take place" for established automakers such as BMW, said Evangelos Simoudis, a Silicon Valley venture capital investor and expert on vehicle software strategies.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023
In a moment of great danger, “the bergs are many, lavender and faceted, when the air is full of floating ice crystals.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2023
The septon removed a faceted crystal sphere from the soft cloth bag at his waist.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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The cubist faceting of both figures and ground gives each panel a density of surface and a propulsive, lilting energy, like swing jazz but with spiked edges.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020
This will cast gentle natural light by day and uniform illumination by night for the first time on Mark Rothko’s 14 monumental black canvases, faceting the octagonal interior designed as a holistic work of art.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2019
For instance, it’s easy to read visual similarities and divergences in the Cubist faceting of paired landscapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
Here she has done a good job of sculpting and faceting the building’s shape, such that from some angles it might be thought to soar.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2015
It appears Dupont was making money before the war by faceting spinels into false diamonds for dowagers and baronesses.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Kerans watches the "countless reflections of the sun move across the surface in huge sheets of fire, like the blazing facetted eyes of gigantic insects".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
When completely facetted the brilliant is finished and requires only to be cleaned, when it is ready for sale.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Wade, Frank Bertram
Large quantities of hornblende are also met with at Levesque Harbor, Bellot Strait, composed of facetted crystals agglutinated together into large masses, forming a crystalline hornblendic gneiss.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
The rubbing down process does not leave a facetted surface, but only a coarse roughly rounded or flattened surface.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Wade, Frank Bertram
A facetted carbuncle accompanied by ten little twinkling emeralds; &c. &c.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas
In general, however, the slitting or cleaving, the rubbing down to shape, the smoothing out of all scratches and the facetting and polishing are done somewhat similarly by all lapidaries.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Wade, Frank Bertram
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