crystallizing
- present participle of crystallize.
Example Sentences
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“The thing that really keeps me awake at night is the likelihood of a number of risks crystallizing at the same time,” Breeden told the BBC in an interview published Friday.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
It also fears crystallizing financial losses on its portfolio by selling bonds, preferring to realize losses slowly by paying more interest on reserves than it earns on bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
There’s always been more to Garrone’s movies than unkindness, but he has a striking facility for crystallizing human baseness in images that are both specific and laden with surplus meaning.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
While the Long Valley Caldera itself is old and its magma is cooling and crystallizing, “there are extremely young lava flows” along the nearby Mono-Inyo Craters chain.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023
At least we didn’t have to store the honey in a special hot room to keep it from crystallizing, because every room we had was a hot room.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
