crystal
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Time to dust off the crystal ball once more and have a crack at predicting where the 20 Premier League teams will finish this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
District Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s ruling that the law “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Let’s be crystal clear: There’s no such thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those measurements revealed previously unseen optical features that contain information about the collective behavior of electrons inside the Wigner crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
The problem was they had no crystal ball.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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They commonly occur when the bladder does not empty completely, leaving concentrated urine that can turn into crystals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Contrails - also known as vapour trails - are made when the hot exhaust from aircraft engines meets the cold air at high altitude, creating ice crystals.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
She calls cows to breakfast with a holler, extemporizes on the Bible in full paragraphs and keeps a collection of high-vibration crystals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Some of the crystals were as massive as skyscrapers!
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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A shining god raised me, and bade my fears Be flown, and I beheld the glorious throne Of crystaled light; with rays by man unknown.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
“The house was crystalled out,” she told Vogue, but she didn’t want visitors to think she was a “crystal person”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2019
Her eyes, her color, her smiles were radiance itself; her mobile lips curved over teeth as white and gleaming as crystalled snow.
From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King
Now I ascended, or again descended the dropping and crystalled rocks; now crept into openings, which suddenly terminated, and turning again, anxiously listened to the sound of the rippling water as my only guide.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon paneled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.
From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Then two drops of crystalled dew From the hyacinth’s deep hue, Brought she for thine eyes of blue; And lest they should miss the sun, Bade thy soul to shine thereon.
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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