variants
also crystalize
as in to form
to take on a definite form
after months of planning, the project is finally starting to crystallize
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The star’s outer layers are shed, and all that’s left is a core of hot matter that cools down over billions of years and eventually crystallizes.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
And to help watchmakers capitalize on that trend, suppliers have been developing some particularly showy materials and techniques, including a method to apply color without dimming the tiny gem particles called nanodiamonds, along with processes to crystallize precious metals.
—Anders Modig Davin, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Infantino’s support crystallized in early 2020, when Trump, in the final year of his first term as president, was faced with the United States Senate laying its ground rules for his initial impeachment trial.
—Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
The alchemical match between director and DP remains one of the defining collaborations of Lynch’s career, with Elmes crystallizing Lynch’s nightmarish and entirely sui generis vision of the American underbelly in all those films.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Jan. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
And to help watchmakers capitalize on that trend, suppliers have been developing some particularly showy materials and techniques, including a method to apply color without dimming the tiny gem particles called nanodiamonds, along with processes to crystallize precious metals.
—Anders Modig Davin, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Infantino’s support crystallized in early 2020, when Trump, in the final year of his first term as president, was faced with the United States Senate laying its ground rules for his initial impeachment trial.
—Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
The alchemical match between director and DP remains one of the defining collaborations of Lynch’s career, with Elmes crystallizing Lynch’s nightmarish and entirely sui generis vision of the American underbelly in all those films.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Crystallize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crystallize. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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