prism
Example Sentences
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The twisted woods would slowly become a prism of color, the lights growing brighter and brighter with each passing hour.
From Literature
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And yet his career should not be judged through the prism of these failures.
From BBC
Bond traders mostly agree that the Fed sees the current situation through that prism: An ounce of prevention now is worth a pound of cure.
The L.A.-based Iraqi painter Ali Eyal, who left his home country in 2017, experienced the fires through the prism of his tumultuous youth.
From Los Angeles Times
“Defiance” offers a prism on Syria’s authoritarian society before the 2011 uprising and subsequent civil war, and vivid snapshots of the devastation that the war unleashed.
From Los Angeles Times
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