tessellate
verb
tes·sel·late
ˈte-sə-ˌlāt 
tessellated; tessellating
: to form into or adorn with mosaic
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The early concept designs for the stadium showed layered, tessellating shells glowing neon blue.
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James Montague, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Which is a reminder yet again that relentlessly falling prices are evidence of increasingly sophisticated and tessellated global production, not deflation.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
The main living room has three exposures looking out on the East River and Manhattan skyline and a ceiling of tessellating yellow cubes, as if it were constructed of pats of butter.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2025
The gallery is part of the fun, too, decked out in a riotous, tessellating wallpaper of musical homages and studded with golden geometric structures.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
That work’s reflective walls cause the piece’s five screens to tessellate across the space, confusing the eye.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
The palatial decor feels of a place, including the black-and-white, checkerboard tiling that tessellates throughout the property, which also has a lovely spa with water views.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
There is not so much a split screen as a tessellating one.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Tonight, Wong is wearing the closing look from Iris van Herpen’s fall 2023 couture show: a black-and-white gabardine and satin column dress covered in tessellating florals that crawl up a tulle illusion mock neck.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
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James Montague, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Which is a reminder yet again that relentlessly falling prices are evidence of increasingly sophisticated and tessellated global production, not deflation.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
The main living room has three exposures looking out on the East River and Manhattan skyline and a ceiling of tessellating yellow cubes, as if it were constructed of pats of butter.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 Apr. 2025
The gallery is part of the fun, too, decked out in a riotous, tessellating wallpaper of musical homages and studded with golden geometric structures.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
That work’s reflective walls cause the piece’s five screens to tessellate across the space, confusing the eye.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
The palatial decor feels of a place, including the black-and-white, checkerboard tiling that tessellates throughout the property, which also has a lovely spa with water views.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
There is not so much a split screen as a tessellating one.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Tonight, Wong is wearing the closing look from Iris van Herpen’s fall 2023 couture show: a black-and-white gabardine and satin column dress covered in tessellating florals that crawl up a tulle illusion mock neck.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
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“Tessellate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tessellate. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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