variants
also crystalizing
as in forming
to take on a definite form
after months of planning, the project is finally starting to crystallize
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Recent Examples of crystallizing
Khosla himself has endorsed the idea of a national wealth fund, and the symmetry between his individual advocacy and OpenAI’s institutional proposal suggests that a policy framework is crystallizing within the AI industry’s upper echelons.
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
That regime sentiment seems to be crystalizing.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
Venus conjoins crystallizing Saturn in your 8th House of Serious Exchanges.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
Such occasions are crystallizing.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Welts said city officials are aware the team wants to stay in Dallas and wants to begin crystallizing the whereabouts of a new home starting in July.
—Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
The market opportunity is crystallizing faster than anticipated.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
Byard, who hopes to be here for the next Bears practice in May but may not be if free agency pulls him in a different direction, also sees a formula crystallizing for a multi-season run of success.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Photograph from Bettmann / Getty Was the Goetz incident a genuinely significant event, crystallizing something that was passing through the city, and perhaps is still with us today?
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
That regime sentiment seems to be crystalizing.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
Venus conjoins crystallizing Saturn in your 8th House of Serious Exchanges.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
Such occasions are crystallizing.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Welts said city officials are aware the team wants to stay in Dallas and wants to begin crystallizing the whereabouts of a new home starting in July.
—Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
The market opportunity is crystallizing faster than anticipated.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
Byard, who hopes to be here for the next Bears practice in May but may not be if free agency pulls him in a different direction, also sees a formula crystallizing for a multi-season run of success.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Photograph from Bettmann / Getty Was the Goetz incident a genuinely significant event, crystallizing something that was passing through the city, and perhaps is still with us today?
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crystallizing
forming
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Some even suggested galaxies could still be chock-full of gas but somehow not forming stars, which would be a real head-scratcher for anyone trying to understand stellar nurseries.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Potatoes planted in the garden a few months ago are forming potatoes underground and the plants are starting to decline.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Crystallizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crystallizing. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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