mosaic
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Hindman said it was "very humbling" to win, and wanted to create something in a British Asian setting that was a "chance to display my mosaic of what British Asianness can look like".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It is a mosaic of subcultures: fishermen in coastal towns, hipsters in Portland, hippies in Eugene, hikers in Bend, farmers in the Willamette Valley, loggers in timber towns and cowboys in Eastern Oregon’s high desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
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
Part of her was tempted to explore the mosaic walk-ways through the jewel-colored leaves, but she knew being discovered by one of the king’s counselors would be dis-astrous.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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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
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
Ancient mosaics, Chinese scrolls, contemporary canvases, photographs and more offer a lush trip through millennia of landscaping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 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
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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
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 F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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