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On every landing, something was always peeling: walls striated with gray paint like shedding snakes; red and gold fú signs (for good fortune) coming unstuck from the last new year.
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Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
Flaco is enormous and distinctive, with a strong, tufted brow, orange eyes, and bright brown-and-white feathers that blend and striate together.
—Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
Around the halfway point, when a stretch of Mitchell’s striated soprano-saxophone ornamentations gives way to jaunty patterns in the wider orchestra, there is a sense of a singular intelligence at work.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
The entire background pattern is rendered in thick, roiled paint — a hallucinatory expanse of vines or waves — and the child’s white shirt and socks are striated from the back end of the brush.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
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Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
Flaco is enormous and distinctive, with a strong, tufted brow, orange eyes, and bright brown-and-white feathers that blend and striate together.
—Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
Around the halfway point, when a stretch of Mitchell’s striated soprano-saxophone ornamentations gives way to jaunty patterns in the wider orchestra, there is a sense of a singular intelligence at work.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
The entire background pattern is rendered in thick, roiled paint — a hallucinatory expanse of vines or waves — and the child’s white shirt and socks are striated from the back end of the brush.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
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“Striate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/striate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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