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marble

adjective as in of or like marble

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Rather than laying down layers of cells that then have to be incubated, they are using vegan-friendly mockups of muscle, fat, and blood to create complex patterns that mimic a well-marbled steak.

Fortunately, what is believed to be the last island marble butterfly population falls within the boundaries of the San Juan National Historic Park.

They rested on the marble floors that rioters — some of whom carried Confederate flags — overran just a week before.

To create The Veiled Son, for example, Jago used Danby marble from Vermont because, according to the artist, it was more suited to his intent.

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Unless you’re into marble racing or Belarusian hockey, you’re probably having a hard time finding any sports to watch right now.

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The academy has faux-marble halls, long mirrors, and gold-color-painted details.

Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

He rests lavishly, depicted in a marble sarcophagus that stares up for eternity at the carved depictions of his life story.

A civilian named Richard Gabrielle was trapped under a pile of marble, but alive during those last minutes.

“Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.

Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.

Aristide, aglow with a sudden impudent inspiration, leant across the marble table.

It is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.

The poor marble statue at his feet can no longer respond to the cries of her famishing child.

His splendid monument, with recumbent marble effigies of himself and his wife, occupies the east wall of the Hyde Chapel.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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