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crystal

[kris-tl] / ˈkrɪs tl /


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She only found out in 2022, when she heard that Finglass would be bringing a busload of her cheerleaders to Brock’s home, to honor her with a lifetime achievement award and a crystal football.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Shocked minerals are particularly important because their internal crystal structures have been altered by immense pressure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The scientists discovered that molecules deposited on their exceptionally clean crystal surface consistently reached the Fourier limit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

On a day of defiance in east Manchester, City's fans made their feelings crystal clear in their first top-flight home game since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She ran to one of the glass walls and placed her hands against the crystal surface.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

But the most decisive evidence came from tiny mineral crystals discovered in rock cuttings collected from an oil well near the crater.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

By using more powerful lasers and developing higher-quality thorium crystals, they hope to substantially increase its precision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Those crystals eventually become large enough to fall as rain or snow, depending on the temperatures below.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

This approach to weather modification, now more than 80-years-old, involves using planes and drones to disperse compounds such as silver iodide into clouds to form ice crystals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He remembered an island, a cave lit with soft glowing crystals, a dinner table on the beach tended by invisible air spirits.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

She imagined that across these richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon panelled doors set with stained and designed panes of glass, was neither care nor unsatisfied desire.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The frozen moisture of its breathing had settled on its fur in a fine powder of frost, and especially were its jowls, muzzle, and eyelashes whitened by its crystalled breath. 

From Lost Face by Jack London

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

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


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