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To find her way back home and save her parents — now frozen in the real world — Ariadlyn must seek out a sorceress and her crystal vial.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
The vials are then inspected using flashes of light, stamped, boxed up and shipped out via a warehouse.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Courses include basic first aid, emergency-shelter logistics, and how to fly a drone to deliver a vial of insulin or assess and report damage to key infrastructure.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Authorities also found vials of nitromethane, a colorless, organic compound used in explosive devices, the court records showed.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
The vials are then inspected using flashes of light, stamped, boxed up and shipped out via a warehouse.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Courses include basic first aid, emergency-shelter logistics, and how to fly a drone to deliver a vial of insulin or assess and report damage to key infrastructure.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Authorities also found vials of nitromethane, a colorless, organic compound used in explosive devices, the court records showed.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Vial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vial. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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vial
noun
vi·al
ˈvī(-ə)l 
: a small container (as for medicines) made usually of glass or plastic
Medical Definition
vial
noun
vi·al
ˈvī(-ə)l
: a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids
called also phial
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