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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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I celebrated with a mountain of bread and a 2-euro glass of wine.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Mosquitoes, glass sponges, and earthworms are among the lineages that stand out in this way.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Pushing through the glass double doors, I found every inch of the restaurant pulsating with some kind of sensory experience.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

As Amini wrote of the glass blade, “the perfection of this form is preserved only with the mental space shared between the conceptualizing artist and the interpreting artist.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Without warning, we’re surrounded by the sound of breaking glass.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

As bassist Jack Dolan lost his glasses while headbanging, guitarist Clay Frankel rolled around on stage, and members of the crowd began surfing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

But on the edge of town, engineers peer through giant magnifying glasses while robotic arms manipulate sheets of copper to develop components used in some of the world's most advanced AI systems.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

HateAid, a Berlin nonprofit, filed the complaint with the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime, arguing the new glasses allow for the secret filming of others in public.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Surveillance is starting to feel ubiquitous, between online bots tracking our every move to cameras everywhere, including the faces of other people wearing AI glasses.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

He’s sitting at the table, and his blue-framed glasses come complete with matching blue straps.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Wearing a plain khaki T-shirt and round-rimmed glassed, Griner was ushered a courtroom by police at Khimki District Court outside Moscow, Griner held up personal photographs before taking a seat in the defendant's cage.

From Reuters Aug. 2, 2022

As soon as brown timber dust flies around a room it ceases to be a place in which surfboards can be shaped and glassed.

From The Guardian Mar. 17, 2017

The actual window had been glassed off and transformed into a tableau mordant of how it might have looked 50 years ago, complete with repositories of musty school text books.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2013

Inside a glassed display fridge are orderly rows of yogurt cartons and bottled dooght, the fermented and salted drink of ancient Persia.

From Slate Oct. 4, 2013

The front’s been ripped out and glassed over, the lawn is paving stone.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Rubbert was by himself on the face of a cliff in Glacier glassing for grizzlies when a sow grizzly and her cub suddenly appeared.

From Washington Times Apr. 7, 2018

I did bricklaying, fibre glassing, I was a nanny, drove those rickshaw things, worked in a sandwich store – anything to get me from one place to the next.

From The Guardian Jun. 15, 2012

Andy Carroll is £3,500 lighter in the pocket after pleading guilty to accidentally glassing Michael Cook in a trendy Newcastle nightspot.

From The Guardian Oct. 25, 2010

"The glassing is a lot stronger than with polyester resin," says Geoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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