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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crystallize .
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Examples
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Halperin crystallizes Foucault's definition of sexuality as "an apparatus for constituting human subjects" (How To 88).
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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LIPSKY: Well, because, for me, Whitey in the book really kind of crystallizes one of the things about West Point, kind of how West Point is facing being part of the modern world, because Whitey is someone -- and again, the reason why Whitey Herzog is called Whitey Herzog is that during your first year at West Point, you don ` t have a first name.
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It is a significant gesture that 'crystallizes' the healing taking place between Russia and Poland.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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It is a significant gesture that 'crystallizes' the healing taking place between Russia and Poland.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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It is a significant gesture that 'crystallizes' the healing taking place between Russia and Poland.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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It is a significant gesture that 'crystallizes' the healing taking place between Russia and Poland.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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Frye points out how, in New Comedy, a new society "crystallizes" around the man and his bride.
Anime Nano! 2009
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For me that photo - which is very straightforward in a way - just kind of crystallizes such a major moment for me personally, the melding together of punk and rap, black and white, etc. Any thoughts on that whole timeframe and era?
rockcritics.com 2009
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Marketing has always been most effective when it takes ideas that are in the air and crystallizes them, so that they resonate with us in ways often beyond our conscious understanding.
Arianna Huffington: Companies and Causes: Social Media Jumpstart a Marketing Revolution Arianna Huffington 2011
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Marketing has always been most effective when it takes ideas that are in the air and crystallizes them, so that they resonate with us in ways often beyond our conscious understanding.
Arianna Huffington: Companies and Causes: Social Media Jumpstart a Marketing Revolution Arianna Huffington 2011
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