crystal
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Time to dust off the crystal ball once more and have a crack at predicting where the 20 Premier League teams will finish this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
District Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s ruling that the law “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Let’s be crystal clear: There’s no such thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
This unusual arrangement is called a Wigner crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
As always after a hurricane, the atmosphere was crystal clear.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Rather than appearing smoothly throughout the material, it began in isolated regions that expanded outward, resembling the way ice crystals begin forming in liquid water.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
She calls cows to breakfast with a holler, extemporizes on the Bible in full paragraphs and keeps a collection of high-vibration crystals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
“All right, time for translation crystals before orientation, little stars.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019
Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.
From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King
The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath.
From Lost Face by Jack London
She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser
She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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