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mosaic

[moh-zey-ik] / moʊˈzeɪ ɪk /


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The former hospital is a heap of rubble and the uranium miner glorified on a huge Soviet mosaic has lost half his face.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

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

Italians have reacted with bemusement to the restoration of a famous bull mosaic in Milan, with some wondering what has happened to the animal's "lucky-charm" testicles.

From BBC Jun. 1, 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

She was a mosaic of her grandmother Rommely’s mysticism, her tale-telling, her great belief in everything and her compassion for the weak ones.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“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

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

Soviet-era mosaics were "no longer necessary," he added.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

At the latter, now called the Kariye Mosque, Muslim worshipers kneeling on the carpeted floor and praying toward Mecca are flanked by 14th-century mosaics of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

It seemed highly unlikely that the three boys just wanted to look at the mosaics.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

The dome- like roof of this hall was of marble variously colored, and the floor tessellated and mosaicked in grotesque and graceful figures of Vesuvian lavas and painted porcelain.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various

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 Thomas Stevens




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