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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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As the CoAl deforms, parts of these interfaces crystallize and help generate new dislocations.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Maybe in 24 hours, when things crystallize with the deal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Strong demand, solid early performances and improving profitability outlooks will crystallize the sector’s hold on markets and strengthen the industry’s case to skeptics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

A new world of opportunities is starting to crystallize for them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Images crystallize ideas—and the image of a double-helical molecule that carried the instructions to build, run, repair, and reproduce humans crystallized the optimism and wonder of the 1950s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

As more material crystallizes, silicon dioxide becomes increasingly concentrated in the remaining melt.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

“This situation perfectly crystallizes the global nature of infectious diseases,” Bhadelia said.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

A new AP-NORC poll released this week crystallizes the public’s pessimism.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

It’s their quiet inner vastness that concerns Kaurismäki, which he crystallizes into an unassuming humanism, unmistakably his.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

The reality crystallizes for me, though, when Dad instructs us to take off our blindfolds and Debbie and Zara are standing in front of us.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"There's not a consensus, by any means, that's crystallized in the United States on what, if anything, to do about AI," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

My devotion crystallized right there, and it never left.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The simulations showed that the frameworks of amorphous interfaces crystallized during deformation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Fascinating. My Aunt Drucilla, who we're staying with in Bath, adores crystallized ginger. I'm sorry to send you up your ladder again, but...”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

It shows Ms. Van Herpen crystallizing into a force the couture could not resist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Villarreal: “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” open with these crystallizing moments for the main characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Researchers leveraged state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy to reveal the structure in its natural state, rather than earlier techniques that required crystallizing vast quantities of identical molecules to form an artificial picture of their native structure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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