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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
shard .
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Examples
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But the shardlike memories he managed to retrieve -- including starving babies who gnawed the flesh off their own fingers and inmates who kept warm by standing in their own excrement -- took on the hallucinatory vividness of a nightmare.
A Classic Or A Hoax? 2008
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Frakir elongated, stretching herself as thin as a thread and twining among the shardlike branches.
Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985
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The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone.
NYT > Travel 2009
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The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone.
NYT > Travel 2009
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Built in 1997, these loos are the architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser's wacky version of a temple (bathrooms are places of contemplation after all, he has noted), with curvy columns, shardlike mosaics, and "stained glass windows" - walls embedded with vividly hued glass bottles.
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The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone.
NYT > Travel 2009
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He said he would love to see Geller construct the building, with its shardlike exterior created by large patios and terraces, somewhere else in downtown.
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After Libeskind’s design had gone through the ringer of engineering constraints, real-estate economics, and political infighting, virtually all its symbolic elements, including the memorial slurry wall, an immense waterfall, and a shardlike museum, disappeared.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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After Libeskind’s design had gone through the ringer of engineering constraints, real-estate economics, and political infighting, virtually all its symbolic elements, including the memorial slurry wall, an immense waterfall, and a shardlike museum, disappeared.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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After Libeskind’s design had gone through the ringer of engineering constraints, real-estate economics, and political infighting, virtually all its symbolic elements, including the memorial slurry wall, an immense waterfall, and a shardlike museum, disappeared.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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