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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
What percentage of ground glass opacities are cancerous?
—Leah Groth, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
More time slipped away like frit — the finely ground glass used to paint gorgeous glass images — through Carey’s fingers.
—Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
These cameras normally have precisely ground glass lenses and large, high-quality image sensors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Helen Martins, who lived from 1897 to 1976, created The Owl House, which features over 300 sculptures made from concrete and ground glass.
—Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
For all the multiphoton microscopes in his lab, Sulzer can still seem like Galileo, trying to infer the positions of planets from pinpricks of light in ground glass.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
And it’s been trial and error, chewing on ground glass.
—Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Oct. 2021
There are works in bronze, marble, terracotta and plaster, and one remarkable mask of Rodin’s lifelong partner, Rose Beuret, in pate de verre (a paste of ground glass brushed into a mold and then fired).
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
What percentage of ground glass opacities are cancerous?
—Leah Groth, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
More time slipped away like frit — the finely ground glass used to paint gorgeous glass images — through Carey’s fingers.
—Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
These cameras normally have precisely ground glass lenses and large, high-quality image sensors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Helen Martins, who lived from 1897 to 1976, created The Owl House, which features over 300 sculptures made from concrete and ground glass.
—Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
For all the multiphoton microscopes in his lab, Sulzer can still seem like Galileo, trying to infer the positions of planets from pinpricks of light in ground glass.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
And it’s been trial and error, chewing on ground glass.
—Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Oct. 2021
There are works in bronze, marble, terracotta and plaster, and one remarkable mask of Rodin’s lifelong partner, Rose Beuret, in pate de verre (a paste of ground glass brushed into a mold and then fired).
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
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“Ground glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ground%20glass. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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