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mosaic

[moh-zay-ik] / moʊˈzeɪ ɪk /


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On week two, viewers watched him bake a biscuit mosaic.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

During the episode, bakers made American-style cookies, recreated iced gems and created a "visually striking" biscuit mosaic.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It’s a sense of the ultramarathoner world being a kind of mosaic, the runners united by their passion, but never anything but solitary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

When it came to the kids in Doug’s class, Bonilla wanted to reflect the multicultural mosaic that is the Los Angeles Unified School District.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Any sound you make ricochets around, bouncing against all these different-shaped stone, mosaic and tiled surfaces.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“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

Nearly 80% of edited embryos became mosaics, genetic mixtures of edited and unedited cells, a limitation needing resolution.

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

"Most Soviet mosaics were designed to convey an ideological message, but their artistic value is also important," activist Kudaibergenova said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

And the architecture...gods, the architecture—gilded marble columns, dazzling mosaics, monumental arches, and terraced villas.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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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