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as in to depict
to present a picture of in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark

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as in to reflect
to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would the burnished chrome fixtures imaged the jewelry store's glittery merchandise

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Recent Examples of image
Noun
The jury was also shown images of bloody gashes and bruises on Ventura’s body during trial. Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025 In an interview with PEOPLE in May, Rodriguez opened up about his weight loss journey and relationship with body image. Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
By deeply imaging a large volume of space, COSMOS-Web provides JWST’s widest cosmic views. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025 Sitting atop a 2,682-meter-tall (8,800-feet-tall) mountain in Chile, the telescope houses the world’s largest digital camera and will image the entire sky every three days. Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for image
Recent Examples of Synonyms for image
Noun
  • This aerial picture shows floodwaters inundating streets and buildings in Hoi An on Thursday.
    Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Fiery press conferences, frustration over a lack of signings, and a glum touchline demeanour paint a worrying picture.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This material is for illustration and discussion purposes and not intended to be, nor construed as, financial, legal, tax or investment advice.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • These illustrations offer a closer look at what’s been completed so far and what’s still to come.
    Neil Nakahodo, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Seven decades later, these ideas are mainstream in both Israeli and US discourse.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One idea that still looks elegant but adds a little something-something?
    Luz García, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This cul-de-sac at the end of civilization feels like a physical manifestation of the loneliness Carol radiates even before the cataclysmic incident.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Given the disease’s wide range of trajectories and manifestations—from mild and manageable to severely disabling—some now regard it as a group of diseases, rather than a single one.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hines also said her memoir, Unscripted, depicts her relationship with her husband in a positive light.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What’s more, the substance of their scenes is as much a matter of Mateus’s images as of the action that’s depicted.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.
    Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Roberts Giuffre died by suicide in April, months before the publication of her book describing years of abuse.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • With new demarcations of land, Pinjar reflects how such violence scaled up.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Dacus recently joined Janelle Monae for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians to reflect on her creative process and her role as an artist.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With unpredictable twists and emotions running high, this Halloween is especially chaotic, and Mutable signs — Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces — can't imagine what's in store.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the continental United States—used to be packed with oysters, more than anyone today might imagine.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/image. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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