Thesaurus results for CLOSE-UPS

close-ups

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plural of close-up

as in stills

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Noun

Investigators found a video showing a customer boarding a plane in Havana bound for Fort Lauderdale, along with messages celebrating arrivals on the Cancun-Fort Lauderdale route and photographs of passports and airline tickets.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
As the company blossomed, Sandy was able to quit her job as a Medicaid specialist and become a full-time employee, documenting their travels with videos and photographs and assisting with social media.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of photographs

Noun

Sudden neck movements can contribute to this injury, and there have been case reports of dissections following roller coaster rides.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
Documentarian Alex Gibney is no stranger to dissections of corrupting power — from his feature dives into Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Scientology.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of dissections

Noun

Typically, the detainees splash selfie photos and videos across social media from the sea and on land as a show of force.

— Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
His photos of his grandmother, for example, shine with an ethereal radiance that transforms the lines in her face and hands into markers celebrating her life and impact.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of photos

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LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
But through a little more than a year together, there have been no blowups with Metcalf.

— Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of blowups

Noun

Instead of a stack of badge scans and business cards, we auto-summarize booth conversations and scan data into CRM-ready records our sales team can act on immediately.

— Dee Blohm, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
It’s led doctors to order extra scans and exams beyond what is medically necessary.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Oct. 2026

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