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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

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

The mosaic walls dimmed and turned grungy and faded again.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

“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

Despite the current trend, Tajik mosaic artist Dzhuraev wants to believe that "the time will come" when mosaics will once again adorn buildings.

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

Scipio and Prosper followed them cautiously, walking over colorful mosaics of unicorns and mermaids.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

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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