a picture is worth a thousand words

phrase

—used to say that it is often easier to show something in a picture than to describe it with words

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That a picture is worth a thousand words was only an advertising slogan from the nineteen-twenties—those thousand words were not always ones that could stand the scrutiny. — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026

The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words, and a photo of Granbury ISD School Marshal Officer Adrick Streiff's selfless act is capturing the hearts of the community. — Dawn White, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025

After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, or, as DeepSeek seems to be finding, ten thousand. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025

If a picture is worth a thousand words, reality capture is worth a million pictures, making complex environments understandable to people without geospatial expertise. — Ronald Bisio, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

Photography If a picture is worth a thousand words, the stories behind music photographer Henry Diltz’s gallery of stars must number in the millions and millions. — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025

Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, a meme is worth a thousand tweets. — Ernesto Verdeja, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025

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