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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.

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  • adjective (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar

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Examples

  • A report by UCLA researchers published in the July issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace crystalized the growing and nagging concerns I have harbored and quantified them in a psychological study.

    Jim Moret: What's Good for Kim Is Bad for Us Jim Moret 2011

  • A report by UCLA researchers published in the July issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace crystalized the growing and nagging concerns I have harbored and quantified them in a psychological study.

    Jim Moret: What's Good for Kim Is Bad for Us Jim Moret 2011

  • Out of those conversations came a collective vision of what a transformed Desert Trails Elementary would look like, crystalized in a five-page list of objectives for their new school.

    Ben Austin: Desert Trails Elementary School Makes History Ben Austin 2012

  • A report by UCLA researchers published in the July issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace crystalized the growing and nagging concerns I have harbored and quantified them in a psychological study.

    Jim Moret: What's Good for Kim Is Bad for Us Jim Moret 2011

  • Out of those conversations came a collective vision of what a transformed Desert Trails Elementary would look like, crystalized in a five-page list of objectives for their new school.

    Ben Austin: Desert Trails Elementary School Makes History Ben Austin 2012

  • No moment crystalized this for me more than when a health care reform opponent head-butted me as I took photos.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • A report by UCLA researchers published in the July issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace crystalized the growing and nagging concerns I have harbored and quantified them in a psychological study.

    Jim Moret: What's Good for Kim Is Bad for Us Jim Moret 2011

  • A report by UCLA researchers published in the July issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace crystalized the growing and nagging concerns I have harbored and quantified them in a psychological study.

    Jim Moret: What's Good for Kim Is Bad for Us Jim Moret 2011

  • I have not seen such a perfectly crystalized presentation of the fundamentals of good storytelling.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from the screenwriters 2010

  • A very wise ex-NASA person that I was talking to yesterday made an amazing statement that crystalized what we seek to accomplish on the Moon.

    "Moon = Stupid": Its The Same Tired Rhetoric From Bob Zubrin - NASA Watch 2009

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