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prism

noun as in crystal

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"Everyone sees it through the prism of their own life experience".

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Slot will know better than anyone that he, as well as his expensively reassembled side, will be viewed through a completely different prism this season.

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He viewed the water politics of the region, quite properly, through the prism of winner-take-all economics.

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Yet the reality of modern football is that everything in seen through, and judged by, the prism of results.

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To find an alternative route through that fog, we decided to approach it through the prism of laws that are supposed to regulate warfare and protect civilians.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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