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An example use of mosaic in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… by having a huge mosaic flaw …”
Mosaic is a type of art made of small pieces of colored stone, glass, or other materials, arranged in a pattern or picture.
the word mosaic occurs in english on average 9.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that mosaic can be often used in the following areas:
1) leisure and entertainment;
2) life, nature, and living environment;