Word: faceting
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...Venus Jewel factory, each pressing his thumb on an electronic fingerprint scanner that releases a turnstile. After removing footwear, to ensure they don't leave with diamonds stuck to their soles, the cutters are handed plastic bags filled with rough diamonds. Operating lathes and lasers, they slice, polish and facet the cloudy crystals into sparkling gems, churning out about $150 million worth each year. Venus and several hundred other factories, employing 300,000 cutters in total, have made Surat the heart of India's thriving diamond-polishing industry, which last year cut 92% of the world's diamond pieces...
...Pinker’s PhD student and Human Mind Teaching Fellow Ned Sahin describes the class as aimed at students “who maybe don’t care about past tense verbs or the synapse between two neurons, who maybe don’t care about one facet of psychology, but who do want a user’s guide to their brain...
...rest of the Bears look like they didn’t belong in the same rink. The Crimson notched seven goals in two games—eight if you count Tim Pettit’s tally that the refs missed—and outplayed Brown in every facet of the game...
...offensive explosion ensued as Harvard completed a 23-3 run to take a 49-34 lead with just over five minutes remaining. But the catalyst was the aggressive offensive play of Norman—a facet of his game which was highly anticipated coming into this season, but had been notably absent during the team’s first 13 games...
...broad and outward: my female acquaintances in Women’s Studies, my friend from Mexico who studies Latin America, my old hallmate, an aspiring entrepreneur, who majors in Economics. To some degree, each of us studies ourselves, tailors our class schedule so that we can explore some facet of our culture, our background, our identities—both present and future...