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kaleidoscope

[kuh-lahy-duh-skohp] / kəˈlaɪ dəˌskoʊp /
NOUN
changing selection or pattern
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Lycra-clad and a kaleidoscope of colour, the 73-year-old moves like a man half his age as he leads a chairobics session soundtracked by a feel-good pop megamix.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In even as short a lifetime as hers, the author writes, it is “like a memory kaleidoscope, shifting and revealing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

With exhilarating charisma, stage energy and impassioned lyrics, Senegalese musician Sahad has created a unique body of work from a kaleidoscope of influences, culminating in his new pan-African album.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

I drop a metal rod, the room swirls into a kaleidoscope of colors, and then—darkness.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

With it, he created LED kaleidoscopes and laser sculptures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

The fate of certain stained-glass windows — kaleidoscopes in the sunlight — remains unknown.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019

His “Photograms” are kaleidoscopes of shape and colour so glorious that the complexity of their composition quickly fades from the mind.

From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2017

Slow motion of water droplets illuminated to look like starbursts breaking apart midair, kaleidoscopes of smoke rings and skin rippling away from the pressure of an explosion are simply stunning in vivid color and contrast.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2017

Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were “roughed in.”

From "1984" by George Orwell


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