Thesaurus results for CLOSE-UPS

close-ups

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plural of close-up

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As this July Fourth approached, FOUND on the Guadalupe River still had about 1,800 items awaiting reunification, about half of them photographs.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
For those who cannot visit in person, the virtual tour has the same information with photographs.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026

Definition of photographs

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After a casino owner turned TV star first became President of the United States, media networks further beefed up their political coverage by treating it like entertainment, amplifying juicy play-by-plays over granular dissections of policy.

— Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
My father founded private hospitals south of Johannesburg, and my mother lectured anatomy, presiding over dissections and preparing meat dishes at home with the same attentive care — removing sinew and fat with a dedicated set of kitchen scalpels.

— Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026

Definition of dissections

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The Norwegian government ultimately euthanized Freya after she was deemed a threat to human safety – with people getting dangerously close to her in the water for photos, or throwing objects at her, despite officials warning them to stay away.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Yet when the England versus Norway matchup became official, social media was immediately flooded with photos, videos, edits, and mashups of the two in their yellow and black bumble bee Dortmund uniforms.

— Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026

Definition of photos

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By Jennifer Barger Special to The Washington Post One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s.

— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
But caution about the wrong thing, paper instead of data, snapshots instead of live feeds, is no longer protective.

— Matthew White, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Definition of snapshots

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The history of peacemaking – from Kadesh to the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian war, to the Belfast Agreement that halted the 30-year sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland – shows that public blowups and threats to walk out are normal stages, not proof of failure.

— Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
Schedule the fight Most blowups happen when one person is already activated and the other gets caught off guard and slips into defense mode—which means no one is actually listening.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026

Definition of blowups

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Additional tests could include handwriting analysis, fingerprint scans and DNA examination, the Journal reported.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
One of the biggest concerns is that someone with an incidental finding may then have follow-up computed tomography scans, as well as ionizing radiation and biopsy complications, searching for something that never would have caused symptoms.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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