snowflake

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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The sensors also have an aerosol probe that measures particulate matter, because dust helps with snowflake formation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The official Met Office definition of a white Christmas is for one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 December somewhere in the UK.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024

“Here! ‘When a snowflake melted,’ he said, ‘that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone.’

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu