photo op

noun

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Healey, who is up for reelection next year and whose approval ratings have dipped, staged a photo op in her Statehouse office with Marcelo Gomes da Silva on Friday that reeked of political opportunism and ickiness. Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 17 June 2025 The event’s gold sponsors paid $2 million for 10 premier seats, a photo op with the president and 10 VIP reception tickets. Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025 Epic visitors are decked out as videogame characters, playing into the theme of the park’s Super Nintendo World, or as goth vampire types for photo ops within Dark Universe, the land that celebrates Universal’s classic monsters. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2025 Trump’s martial rhetoric accompanying these militarized photo ops has portrayed a nation that is all but on the brink of war—with itself. Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for photo op

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of photo op was in 1981

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“Photo op.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photo%20op. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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