prism
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“If you’re still looking at us through the prism of left and right, you’re going to be mystified,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Certain that Ingres had used something optical to achieve that quality, Hockney bought himself a camera lucida, a small device that works like a prism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
This structure consists of closely spaced parallel strips that interact with light similarly to a prism.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
And yet his career should not be judged through the prism of these failures.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Tally looked up at the cruel face through a prism of gathering tears.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
Images afterward show bags were placed around a few of Golestan’s massive chandeliers to catch any falling crystal prisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
A projector with prisms tried to create the effect of gods walking across a rainbow.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Underneath the lighthouse’s copper dome lay sixteen reflecting prisms and four projecting lenses floating in a bath of mercury.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing prism
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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