Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for close-ups
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Within days, it was hurled into the internet's true crime universe, Andrea May Sahouri reports, with influencers far and wide sharing posts, live streams and even dissections of timelines and evidence, bringing national attention to Park and a reeling rural Michigan community.—
Leah Olajide,
Freep.com,
19 Dec. 2025 -
Based on dissections of a few catfish and the timing of the sighting, researchers concluded the bumblebee catfish were likely migrating upriver to spawn and were not eating during the migration.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
11 Aug. 2025
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Annie's husband, and Savannah's brother-in-law, is Tommaso Cioni, according to Page Six, which published photographs of the pair leaving their home in Tucson.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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The complaint includes several photographs of deterioration and hazards.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Nevertheless, the scrutiny ratcheted up, resulting in pieces musing on journalistic ethics and deconstructions of her book, American Canto.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Dec. 2025
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That can include your contacts, photos, location, or linked social media accounts like Instagram or Spotify.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Also in one of several photos included in the 3 million new files, Mountbatten-Windsor is seen kneeling on all fours over an unidentified woman on the ground.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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When that broader lens is applied, analyses estimate that the share of Americans who qualify as obese rises from 42% to roughly 68%.—
Bret Scher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Public Health would absorb the Certificate of Need initiative and the data collection and analyses related to CON decision making, officials said Wednesday.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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During Coulier's six-month checkup and PET scans, doctors discovered a flare-up had returned as an enlarged tumor.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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After limping toward a medical tent for checks, Vonn was airlifted to the hospital, where scans confirmed the extent of her injury.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
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With more and more international travelers headed to Japan—2025 was a record year for tourism—and social media feeds flooded with videos from Hokkaido and snapshots of slope-side katsu curry and ramen, the temptation to fly across the world to ski is heightened.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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Scientists continue to attempt to take snapshots of this primordial soup to understand the characteristics of quark-gluon plasma.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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To get the monthly employment snapshot, the BLS surveys about 121,000 US employers, accounting for 631,000 work sites (covering more than a quarter of overall employment).—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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For the last decade, wildlife biologists have been using remote cameras and scat surveys to track the movements of the fox in the southern Sierra.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Close-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/close-ups. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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