mosaic
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During the episode, bakers made American-style cookies, recreated iced gems and created a "visually striking" biscuit mosaic.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
There it unfolds—with graceful and terrible inevitability—into a mosaic of abandonment and love, fanaticism and terror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
He said it was also home to a number of rare invertebrates including "beetles and the beewolf wasp that depend on the mosaic of heathland and grassland habitats to survive".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The only exit was a hole dug in one corner of the floor where the mosaic had been pulled up.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
The grand palace in the luxury Palmeraie neighbourhood of Marrakech has been described as an architectural masterpiece, built by 1,300 craftsmen and featuring ornate carvings and mosaics.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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 Study of the Palace at Urbino, there is mention of "arm chairs encircling a table all mosaicked with tarsia, and carved by Maestro Giacomo of Florence," a worker of considerable repute.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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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