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
In fact, just a single snowflake has to be recorded falling at any point during the 24 hours of 25 December at any of the Met Office's network of around 300 observing stations.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
“It is approaching a blizzard,” Dad says, pointing to a single snowflake floating its way to the earth.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
He added that far too often he was seeing a narrative where young people were being described as "snowflakes or shirkers".
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
"Planets form from the bottom up, by sticking small-scale planetesimals together. But forming a planet at the edge of the instability zone would be like trying to stick snowflakes together in a hurricane," he said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Not to be a bummer, but come summer, you might just find yourself missing the snowflakes.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
Like snowflakes, every stock market bubble is unique.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
Gnomes waddled around with their tongues out, trying to catch snowflakes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
