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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Suddenly, Nicky, who Chloe has erased from her life, is back in the picture and causing havoc as the police investigate the murder and zero in on Ethan, who had tensions with his father.
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Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 9 June 2025
As And Just Like That… fans already know, Aidan is back in the picture, a divorced father of three, trying a third time to make a relationship with Carrie work.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 July 2025
However, his biological father was never in the picture and Jacklyn's new husband Miguel Bezos adopted him, according to a 1999 Wired profile.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 27 June 2025
This, at his best, is Crews’s subject: the relationship between art and self-annihilation—and whether the price of becoming the boy in the picture is too high to be paid by the one stumbling through the dark.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 9 June 2025
As And Just Like That… fans already know, Aidan is back in the picture, a divorced father of three, trying a third time to make a relationship with Carrie work.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 July 2025
However, his biological father was never in the picture and Jacklyn's new husband Miguel Bezos adopted him, according to a 1999 Wired profile.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 27 June 2025
This, at his best, is Crews’s subject: the relationship between art and self-annihilation—and whether the price of becoming the boy in the picture is too high to be paid by the one stumbling through the dark.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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“In the picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20picture. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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