crystal
Example Sentences
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History isn’t a crystal ball, but certain historical moments become magnifying glasses, highlighting truths today’s political passions obscure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
The work, published in Science, captures an intermediate structural state that appears during a transformation between two common crystal arrangements found in metals.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
In physics, this phenomenon resembles an Umklapp process, where motion is effectively reversed because of the symmetry of the crystal structure.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
"Without a crystal ball nobody can know what is going to happen" to producers' and farmers' costs at the moment these contracts are signed.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Theirs was a well-stocked nursery indeed, thanks to their former governess, but a crystal ball was not an everyday classroom item, even in Miss Lumley’s day.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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