as in crystal
easily seen through
we could see fish swimming beneath the crystalline ice of the frozen lake
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Recent Examples of crystalline
There was excitement about the writing, which was crystalline and beautiful, but the real excitement was about Jones’s voice—his confidence, his humor, his willingness to be entirely himself.
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Kelly Sundberg
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Interstellar dust typically is up to 0.1 microns (ten millionths of a meter) in size, but MIRI detected grains of crystalline silicate dust in the Butterfly Nebula's torus that has a grain size of a millionth of a meter.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Polycrystalline panels are often times called multi-crystalline.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The main aim of that research is to create crystalline III-V materials with a low density of defects.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
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Kelly Sundberg
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Interstellar dust typically is up to 0.1 microns (ten millionths of a meter) in size, but MIRI detected grains of crystalline silicate dust in the Butterfly Nebula's torus that has a grain size of a millionth of a meter.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Polycrystalline panels are often times called multi-crystalline.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The main aim of that research is to create crystalline III-V materials with a low density of defects.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crystalline
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The two areas are linked in delightfully indulgent ways, including a darkly glamorous corridor swagged with flower chandeliers and a giant eye behind the bar, with crystal eyelashes.—
Sarah Turner,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Even the transition between floors is theatrical, with a crystal elevator that offers shifting vistas of the bay.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
27 Aug. 2025
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Runge advises patients to ask how AI tools are being used in their care, choose providers who are transparent, and expect bedside empathy alongside cutting-edge diagnostics.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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In this way, cosmic dust behaves as a very efficient absorber of visible light, is only lightly absorbed by near-infrared light, and is practically perfectly transparent to mid-infrared (and longer) wavelengths of light.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Gone is the time when your only options were liquid or powder, full or light coverage.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Enterprise capital, which is a central focus of our nonprofit, Capitalize Good, is unrestricted, multiyear funding that increases liquid net assets and provides financial stability, giving nonprofits the ability to rapidly pivot, advocate and sustain operations during times of uncertainty.—
Andrea Levere,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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On the other end, a clear brow gel sculpts natural hairs into your preferred position.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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This reliability could speed up the shoe design cycle and reduce costs, while giving developers a clearer picture of real-world performance.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Crystalline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crystalline. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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