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crystallize

[kris-tl-ahyz] / ˈkrɪs tlˌaɪz /


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In an earlier project, Gaston, Lambie, and Steenbergen used liquid gallium to crystallize zinc into intricate `snowflake' structures.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 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

Even the Piker issue—the one that seems to crystallize so much of the anxiety there—he treated as over-indexed.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

“When things crystallize like this, it brings out the pitchforks and the torches,” said Marc Cenedella, CEO of the jobs platform Ladders.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

Gradually, as the nights passed, these fictional relatives began to crystallize in their minds.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

Still, the figure crystallizes something we’ve all felt for a while — that boomers are giving more money to their millennial or Gen Z offspring than past generations.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2025

But poetry helps them cope, and in Dawson’s eyes, this is where the message of the film crystallizes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2024

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

“A lot crystallized in the past year or so.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

"Iron is crystallized in oxide nanoparticles making the cells superparamagnetic and reactive to magnetic fields. We found by far the strongest magnetic response in liver tissue," adds Prof. Ulf Wiedwald, from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

This artistic neverland is crystallized in the apartment building that has music pouring out of every floor when Ali rides the elevator.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

“So all of these things are having really profound ripple effects. This is a situation where you really are seeing crystallized the need for bio preparedness.”

From Salon May 11, 2026

A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

It also fears crystallizing financial losses on its portfolio by selling bonds, preferring to realize losses slowly by paying more interest on reserves than it earns on bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

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

Lepore has ways of crystallizing that truth in both specific examples and fresh aphorisms.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2023

So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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