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kaleidoscope

[kuh-lahy-duh-skohp] / kəˈlaɪ dəˌskoʊp /
NOUN
changing selection or pattern
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The dotty pumpkins and kaleidoscope rooms of Yayoi Kusama, who has died aged 97, were as vibrant as the artist herself, but her exuberant work was the expression of a long battle with mental illness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

It creates a kaleidoscope of images showing the Sun and the shadow cast on it during the eclipse.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In even as short a lifetime as hers, the author writes, it is “like a memory kaleidoscope, shifting and revealing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

With exhilarating charisma, stage energy and impassioned lyrics, Senegalese musician Sahad has created a unique body of work from a kaleidoscope of influences, culminating in his new pan-African album.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

She took out the kaleidoscope and popped off its colorful prismatic lens.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Riots of autumn leaves turning blustery skies into kaleidoscopes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

For Olympians who spin in the air like kaleidoscopes, finding a landing spot is more dangerous when the sky is white like the ground.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

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

Slow motion of water droplets illuminated to look like starbursts breaking apart midair, kaleidoscopes of smoke rings and skin rippling away from the pressure of an explosion are simply stunning in vivid color and contrast.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2017

Glass cabinets contain beauty-scopes—tiny brass kaleidoscopes clustered by season and year—featuring images of the kingdom's best and brightest courtiers, taken by the Orléans press corps.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton



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