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  • noun Plural form of karat.

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Examples

  • Cult of Mac explains, "Instead of paying $40,000 for a Swarovski iPhone 4, two Australian businessmen paid customizer Stuart Hughes eight million dollars to plate their iPhone 4s in gold and then encrust them in over five hundred diamonds totaling over 100 karats."

    Most Expensive iPhone 4 EVER Is Encrusted With Over 500 Diamonds (PHOTOS) Bianca Bosker 2010

  • Cult of Mac explains, "Instead of paying $40,000 for a Swarovski iPhone 4, two Australian businessmen paid customizer Stuart Hughes eight million dollars to plate their iPhone 4s in gold and then encrust them in over five hundred diamonds totaling over 100 karats."

    Most Expensive iPhone 4 EVER Is Encrusted With Over 500 Diamonds (PHOTOS) Bianca Bosker 2010

  • A few months later, he told me that he needed to get my ring cleaned—that old trick—and when he brought my ring back, it had a new and even bigger diamond on it that was something like 5.8 karats.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • Twenty minutes is really easy, especially if you use the carrots (karats?) of pleasure along the way.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » 6 tricks for writing when you don’t feel like it 2009

  • In the first few months of our marriage, he gave me something like sixty karats of diamonds.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • It was this gorgeous dome ring that looked like an estate piece, and it was huge: 14.9 karats in all.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • A few months later, he told me that he needed to get my ring cleaned—that old trick—and when he brought my ring back, it had a new and even bigger diamond on it that was something like 5.8 karats.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • Up to the chair level, the gold is 14 karats, up to the ceiling it's 18 karat gold and the ceiling is 24 karat gold.

    Guadalupe in Zacatecas: masterpieces of colonial art 2009

  • In the first few months of our marriage, he gave me something like sixty karats of diamonds.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

  • It was this gorgeous dome ring that looked like an estate piece, and it was huge: 14.9 karats in all.

    Teed Off Sherrie Daly 2011

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