glassy
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The design’s height, contemporary style, glassy facade and round edges have drawn boycotts, protests, legal threats and letter-writing campaigns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Researchers also detected rare inclusions of lechatelierite, a high temperature glassy silica that forms during extreme heating, further confirming an impact origin.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
Some sported a red, white and blue “Made in Michigan” sticker on their glassy faces.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
The glassy cylinder is the planet's oldest ice and was drilled from deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
As Coal and Door looked around, they saw themselves reflected on every shiny, glassy surface.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
The marbles they talk about are the lively glassies and marididdles that determine the annual marbles championship of England, oldest sporting event in the Kingdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had them all: cat’s-eyes, aggies, dearies, milkies, steelies, glassies, onionskins.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Cal was able to develop his marble game and set about gathering in all the chalkies and immies, glassies and agates, in the schoolyard.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Information ops and counterops are a delicate business; modern societies are glass houses when it comes to cyber vulnerability, and the United States is glassier than most.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2018
We have better cyber rocks to throw at other nations’ houses, but our house is glassier than theirs.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2016
The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the results of his absorbed mood was that he greeted Aline with a stare of an even glassier quality than usual.
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Cyber Command, put it before he entered government, America still “lives in the glassiest of glass houses.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
As Michael Sulmeyer, now a senior adviser to United States Cyber Command, put it before he entered government, America “lives in the glassiest of glass houses.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2020
State Department's glassiest stares, announced before leaving Nicaragua that he would not be a candidate in the February elections.
From Time Magazine Archive
Driven by a two-stroke engine that generates 350 lbs. of thrust, the Jetboard can carve up even the glassiest surface in a sport that combines the ease of water skiing with the freedom of surfing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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