mosaic
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This method of gene editing appears more promising than others, she said, but added the mosaic issue needs to be resolved for this to move forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Restoration began this week, with a small construction site erected around the mosaic and a restorer working to return the artwork to its former glory, Milan's city council said in a statement.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
It included biker jackets adorned with bejeweled crosses and, in the finale, a halter top that featured the Virgin Mary made out of a mosaic of jewels.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
The floor is a custom mosaic of sea creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
But they weren’t guild signs or crests, and they didn’t make pictures, like tiles in a mosaic.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In Egli’s study, nearly 80% of embryos became mosaics, meaning if those embryos grew into babies, they would likely still have cells with the disease-causing mutations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
For example, their 2013 “Tailored Mosaic” line, inspired by the golden mosaics in the Cathedral of Monreale in Sicily, featured garments adorned with angels, saints and Mary, as well as biblical figures.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Saaduddeen, 67, travels each month to the Jihad Museum, a building of glittering blue and white mosaics over the hills of Herat in western Afghanistan.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
In groups of twenty or thirty, tourists swarmed through the ruins, milling around the villas, wandering the cobblestone paths, gawking at the colourful frescoes and mosaics.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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In the years since, the images have been mosaicked together, allowing scientists to zoom across Venus’s surface like someone panning through Google Earth and examine old data in new ways.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
A patch of sidewalk embedded with the mosaicked words “Bon-Ton Café” marks the spot of what was, a century ago, Jackson’s toniest restaurant.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
I could see their mosaicked little faces gliding through the wave as I paddled hard into the pocket, felt the familiar lift, and pounced to my feet.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2020
In the days of their glory they were mosaicked with blue, green and yellow glazed tiles; but nothing now remains but a few mournful-looking patches of blue, surviving the ravages of time and decay.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
Dennistoun says that this study contained "arm-chairs encircling a table all mosaicked with tarsia, and carved by Maestro Giacomo of Florence," but it is now quite bare, though, fortunately, the tarsie are well preserved.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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