variants
also crystalizes
as in forms
to take on a definite form
after months of planning, the project is finally starting to crystallize
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Recent Examples of crystallizes
That vulnerability crystallizes in her scenes opposite French screen legend Daniel Auteuil, who plays her ex-husband, Gabriel.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Coherence crystallizes when daily work aligns with broader goals, even under pressure.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The nanograins provide the right conditions for UC-MAC to grow, and eventually, a complete layer of the atom-thick carbon material crystallizes on top of the copper.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025
Buyl, at Ghent University, said that the emergent-misalignment work crystallizes suspicions among computer scientists.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Coherence crystallizes when daily work aligns with broader goals, even under pressure.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The nanograins provide the right conditions for UC-MAC to grow, and eventually, a complete layer of the atom-thick carbon material crystallizes on top of the copper.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025
Buyl, at Ghent University, said that the emergent-misalignment work crystallizes suspicions among computer scientists.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crystallizes
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That balancing act wouldn’t be possible without the mastery of Cooke and Wright (who also directed the first three episodes), whose tension forms the basis of every relationship and plot point in the six-episode series.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the simplest way to describe this phenomenon is to say that parasocial interaction is what happens when someone forms a relationship with someone or something else that is not able to facilitate full two-way communication in the conventional sense.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The mixture behaves like a liquid until pressure is applied, then solidifies before returning to a liquid state.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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For better or worse, the richest have long been able to wrest stars from the less well-off; there is, though, a welcome debate to be had about how much PSR solidifies the status quo.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Crystallizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crystallizes. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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