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a distinct feature or element in a problem

or more rarely: a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)

Again Langdon sensed there remained some facet of this mystery yet to reveal itself.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

The scourge of PCP — "angel dust" — had begun to grip almost every facet of barrio life.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
The world dim-featured in mouldering light, floating, faceted and without dimension.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
"It turns out, though, the hacker stumbled onto a facet of the Masonic mystery I don't think he expected."
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
But one of the strangest facets of our world is how fugitives from justice can hide in a world as interconnected as ours.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
The red wine trapped the light like the facet of a ruby.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
Dios, was the truth right in front of my facet There's one person who can tell me the truth about the night my dad died.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
The million chipped facets of its glass head refract the light and make it look like a meteor.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Each new question, each new catechism chapter, each new story seemed to open up a thousand facets concerning the salvation of my soul.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
The image of Edward in the meadow—glowing, shimmering like his skin was made of a million diamond facets—was burned into my memory.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
There was the Prism Room, which was dripping with crystals, basically: chandeliers, candelabras, faceted windows.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
The latter reflected the sun's rays from the thousand facets of their crystals.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Brill had wanted handles she'd seen in a Paris hotel, faceted crystal knobs the size of Ping-Pong balls.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
Another facet of cosmic reason.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
It was cut in a million facets, so that even in the subdued light shining from the lamp, it sparkled.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
However, it had not been my intention to analyse here the various facets of this small episode from years ago.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
I can feel my heart beating wildly in every facet of my body.
Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless
You destroyed its true form, which is that of a pyramid, with six sides or facets.'
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
A flock of them, collected points of light halfway up the sky, made a turn all at one time, and showed the facets of their flight clear as a diamond.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
"This doesn't make sense," I murmur to myself, trying to remember every facet of the plan.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen

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