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kaleidoscope

[kuh-lahy-duh-skohp] / kəˈlaɪ dəˌskoʊp /
NOUN
changing selection or pattern
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It creates a kaleidoscope of images showing the Sun and the shadow cast on it during the eclipse.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

More than 50 different songs appear, sometimes impatiently cast aside by Mr. Luhrmann so he can jiggle and rotate his kaleidoscope again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," he said during his trip to Davos.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

“The Hate That Hate Produced”—the title—was edited tightly into a kaleidoscope of “shocker” images .

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

With it, he created LED kaleidoscopes and laser sculptures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Inside, he would see painters — some of them recruited off the street and paid minimum wage — churning out art in the Max aesthetic: cheery, polychrome, wide-brushstroke kaleidoscopes on canvas.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2019

The fate of certain stained-glass windows — kaleidoscopes in the sunlight — remains unknown.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019

His “Photograms” are kaleidoscopes of shape and colour so glorious that the complexity of their composition quickly fades from the mind.

From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2017

Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were “roughed in.”

From "1984" by George Orwell



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