enter the picture
idiom
: to be considered as part of a situation
Marriage never entered the picture until now.
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Rye didn’t enter the picture until several years later, when Mr. Naylor moved to Southern California and founded Tiny Naylor’s, a string of coffee shops that had Googie architecture and, in some locations, roller-skating waitresses.
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Pete Wells, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Other characters soon enter the picture, including Jim Doty, Ryan Avis and Tony Kava, a trio of Iowa law enforcers who smell something fishy and start doing the legwork (or, in the case of Kava, an eccentric hacker, the computer work) to prove their hunches.
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
Meaningful rain chances don’t enter the picture, and barely, until next workweek.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Moreover, folk art tends to inspire many of the designs while other Latin American design movements, such as the unique brand of Modernism that shaped the graphic look of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, never enter the picture.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
Shower chances enter the picture tomorrow morning, with a round or two of everyday thunderstorms possible during the afternoon and evening hours.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
New characters enter the picture without feeling forced, and your most pressing questions from season four will get answered, all while creating new mysteries and events to ponder.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2023
This is where discussion and debate should enter the picture, not a police action or a report to the dean of students.
—WSJ, 14 June 2023
The Great Plains enter the picture only in the late nineteenth century, with the coming of transcontinental railroads.
—Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
Pete Wells, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Other characters soon enter the picture, including Jim Doty, Ryan Avis and Tony Kava, a trio of Iowa law enforcers who smell something fishy and start doing the legwork (or, in the case of Kava, an eccentric hacker, the computer work) to prove their hunches.
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
Meaningful rain chances don’t enter the picture, and barely, until next workweek.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Moreover, folk art tends to inspire many of the designs while other Latin American design movements, such as the unique brand of Modernism that shaped the graphic look of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, never enter the picture.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
Shower chances enter the picture tomorrow morning, with a round or two of everyday thunderstorms possible during the afternoon and evening hours.
—A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
New characters enter the picture without feeling forced, and your most pressing questions from season four will get answered, all while creating new mysteries and events to ponder.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2023
This is where discussion and debate should enter the picture, not a police action or a report to the dean of students.
—WSJ, 14 June 2023
The Great Plains enter the picture only in the late nineteenth century, with the coming of transcontinental railroads.
—Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
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