glass
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The court, housed in a shiny glass building on the outskirts of The Hague, employs around 900 staff from 100 nationalities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yet governments have increasingly pushed citizens to recycle paper, glass and plastics worth less than the cost of collecting and processing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
On Earth, volcanic glass such as obsidian is an example of silica-rich material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
And Bruce Goff’s gleaming Vitrolite kitchen for Libbey-Owens-Ford glass company, shown in Charles Turzak’s rendering, integrated pigmented structural glass counters and cabinets into a polished, easily cleaned whole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
We pressed our faces to the glass, but no lights showed and clouds covered the moon.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Norway’s government proposed a temporary ban on AI-enabled glasses in certain public areas to foster a discussion around their use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Zuckerberg has laid out a vision in which Muse couples with an ever-expanding line-up of Meta AI smart glasses, enabling users to summon hands-free what he calls "personal superintelligence".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Raise your pretend glasses, Kyle Juszczyk and Jake Ferguson, and chug the imaginary beverages of your choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
To protect his circadian rhythm, he wears red-light glasses every night as he winds down before bed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He stares at me through those enormous glasses.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Kelp bobbed in the shallows, and the rockpools were glassed with ice.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2018
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
He shouldered his rifle and glassed the intersection.
From Slate ● May 2, 2012
A glassed case in the corner held the curios he had collected—specimens of butterflies, a rare arrowhead, a curious rock shaped like a human profile.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Dad and I sat on a couple of logs, glassing occassionally, as William called with both his mouth and the coffee can contraption.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at Jam, his eyes glassing over with tears.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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