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- verb Present participle of
crystalize .
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Examples
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Historically, you have pushback from the idea of crystalizing losses on some of the legacy non-cash interest rate charges and I appreciate fully it's a balancing act.
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It was a wet cold November 22, 2009, with crystalizing winds spittling freezing breezes across the Hudson, numbing the hundreds of people gathered on the Christopher Street Pier for a candlelit vigil to commemorate the life and the death of Jorge Steven López Mercado.
Stephanie A. Jones: Out of the Rain, Into the Cathedral Stephanie A. Jones 2010
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A resolve which had been growing, formless, in his mind was now crystalizing into decision.
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It was a wet cold November 22, 2009, with crystalizing winds spittling freezing breezes across the Hudson, numbing the hundreds of people gathered on the Christopher Street Pier for a candlelit vigil to commemorate the life and the death of Jorge Steven López Mercado.
Stephanie A. Jones: Out of the Rain, Into the Cathedral Stephanie A. Jones 2010
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I was confusing anyone who disagrees with me about anything as being racists, and I was accusing all 55 million idiots who vote republican as being members of the KKK. for a troglodite you have a beautiful way of crystalizing arguments down to their essential forms. bravo
Howard Wolfson Goes To War With MSNBC, Hammers Chris Matthews And Keith Olbermann 2009
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The perception of John McCain as a drama queen is increasingly crystalizing within the electorate.
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Thanks, Carl Bernstein, for crystalizing my suspicions of McCain/Palin.
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We are in the process of figuring out how to create the 2nd Vloggercon and trying to figure out how to make a conference more conversational, distributed, and bottom up, while still having it be an event with a few key crystalizing moments that create shared experience.
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Praising Zambia's "impressive macroeconomic and agricultural policies," Mogae said that adequate roads as well as energy and communications infrastructure, were crucial in spurring and crystalizing economic development.
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It was a rare crystalizing moment when your thinking becomes razor sharp and forces you to stop what you are doing.
GHibbs commented on the word crystalizing
There is the parallel verb 'crystalise' which is listed, but with the present participle 'crystalising' that is currently not listed here.
June 3, 2012