big picture

noun

often capitalized B&P

: the entire perspective on a situation or issue

—used with the

Examples of big picture in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The big picture here: what the Texans are trying to do is put their own spin on a favorable team-building approach spawned by the 2011 NFL collective bargaining agreement’s slashing of draft class’ salaries, particularly for first-round selections. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024

Looking at the big picture, reducing repetition alleviates the burden on developers and cuts hardware and cloud resource costs. —Reggie Yativ, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

No single vendor provides solutions addressing all these tenets, so a model will help your teams balance diverse product messaging claims against the big picture for operationalizing zero trust. —Ravi Ithal, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

Even so, there are ways to go big picture by acknowledging what is going well, looking forward to a positive end result, and figuring out how to expand your mind beyond narrow thinking. —Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024

This is the big picture of star formation that astronomers have figured out, but there are several key steps in this process that elude us, largely because of the sheer difficulty of observing the literally nebulous structure of stellar nurseries. —Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024

This will provide a ‘big picture’ view of your entire financial situation, and your advisor will be able to discern whether buying a policy is actually a financial necessity (or not). —The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024

McNerney was known both inside Boeing and by suppliers as a big picture strategist not deeply involved on the operating side. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024

In the big picture, said Gallery, public employees are losing rights enshrined to them in the Florida constitution. —Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above