Crossword-Solution: CALIBRATES
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATAEG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CALIBRATES (2)
The type is still his measuring-stick, but he calibrates it far less rigidly than a Rymer analyzing Iago or Evadne.
The sea has her own way of making men, and informs them, as the years and miles go by, with a species of differential intuition, a flexible mental mechanism which calibrates and registers with astonishing accuracy and speed.
Quotes with CALIBRATES (1)
A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our society typically take the prototypical dumb drug, ethyl alcohol. If it's socially acceptable to take a drug that makes you temporarily happy and stupid, then why not rationally design drugs to make people perpetually happier and smarter? Presumably, in order to limit abuse-potential, …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1986).