crystallize

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“The sale of the food-delivery operations in Taiwan enables the company to crystallize considerable fundamental value for its shareholders.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Bond markets are said to be a daily referendum on the government, as their moves crystallize the impact of fiscal, monetary, domestic, and foreign policies into a series of tradable data points.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Where last year’s parade day felt more like an overdue coronation, this one served to crystallize their legacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

To create this structure, the researchers heated a metastable form of sodium hydridoborate until it began to crystallize, then cooled it rapidly to lock the structure in place.

From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2025

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