in the picture
idiom
: involved or playing a part in something : in the same situation or relationship
After their brief separation, her boyfriend is back in the picture.
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Variations on that timeline are roughly the same in the sense that over the fifteen years, there is a sudden transformative eureka about AI that puts AGI in the picture.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Recently, an island paradise appeared in the picture.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 27 Mar. 2025
Although Disney promised to approach that aspect of the story with greater sensitivity, purists can rest assured that the director Marc Webb and the screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson have seen fit to keep Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, and Dopey in the picture.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Without Butler in the picture and with Jonathan Kuminga starting in his place, Curry scored 15 points in the first half as the Warriors trailed 49-46 at halftime.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Recently, an island paradise appeared in the picture.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 27 Mar. 2025
Although Disney promised to approach that aspect of the story with greater sensitivity, purists can rest assured that the director Marc Webb and the screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson have seen fit to keep Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, and Dopey in the picture.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Without Butler in the picture and with Jonathan Kuminga starting in his place, Curry scored 15 points in the first half as the Warriors trailed 49-46 at halftime.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
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“In the picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20picture. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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