as in colorful
marked by a variety of usually vivid colors
a polychromatic tropical bird
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Recent Examples of polychromatic
In all, Saturday probably offered a glittering glimpse of a fall day out of legend and memory, of long-ago football games and sunlit excursions on roads and trails embellished by the fiercely polychromatic hues of tree after roadside tree.
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Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
In the middle, like some scar or deformity, lies a jagged expanse of civilization, garish polychromatic swaths of development blending into one another with only jutting casino high-rises and the slash of Highway 50 serving as compass points.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
So, despite obvious monochromatic aspects, the day in Washington also asserted a sort of polychromatic nature.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
Gonzalez features his polychromatic and stucco textured depiction of L.A.’s advertorial landscape on a cotton sweater, canvas workwear jacket and pants.
—The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
In the middle, like some scar or deformity, lies a jagged expanse of civilization, garish polychromatic swaths of development blending into one another with only jutting casino high-rises and the slash of Highway 50 serving as compass points.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
So, despite obvious monochromatic aspects, the day in Washington also asserted a sort of polychromatic nature.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
Gonzalez features his polychromatic and stucco textured depiction of L.A.’s advertorial landscape on a cotton sweater, canvas workwear jacket and pants.
—The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polychromatic
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By Jemima McEvoy, Forbes Staff Ed Stack stands with his arms crossed, surveying the wall of colorful basketball shoes near the entrance of Dick’s Sporting Goods’ House of Sport in Pittsburgh’s Ross Park Mall.Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Take in the beauty of creative floats, colorful costumes, and live music from high school marching bands.Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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But the amount of verification varied from unit to unit, according to at least eight officers.Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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While there are plenty of no-name carbon copy trainers and NPCs scattered throughout Pokémon, the characters that are part of the story tend to be wildly varied, with no two major characters being all that alike.Oliver Brandt, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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Suspended from the fashionable wooden arch are a teething ring, crinkly rainbow, rattle, mirror, and plush moon to promote hand-eye coordination.Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Garvin flies both a rainbow Pride flag and a Black Lives Matter flag, prompting the occasional shouted slur.Brian Owens, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
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“Polychromatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polychromatic. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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