Thesaurus results for CLOSE-UPS

close-ups

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plural of close-up

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The hotel plays up its proximity to ACL Live, with framed photographs of the show and an Austin City Limits coffee table book of images captured by the same photographer.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
The series, produced by Red Rock Films, was made using more than 400 licensed photographs and archival footage.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of photographs

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Aortic dissections are estimated to occur in 20,000 people in the United States every year, half of which are fatal.

— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 July 2026
Aortic dissections occur when the inner layer of tissue in the aorta, which carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body, ruptures.

— Veronique Greenwood, Time, 13 July 2026

Definition of dissections

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Bystander videos and photos posted by on social media showed a man sitting on the ground with his hands behind his back, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

— Philip Marcelo, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Police say that Wyatt continued the conversations even after being informed that the person was 13, going as far as requesting explicit photos.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of photos

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Earlier this week, the artist posted a classic photo dump filled with images of her pitbull Shark (a former Dogue cover star), a pumpkin patch, and other candid snapshots from her life recently.

— Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
The competing polls offer different snapshots of voter opinion, with the wording of the question being one key difference between the surveys.

— Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of snapshots

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County and regional leaders can use and are using the insights from the economic analyses to inform decision-making across industries, including planning and development.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
After taking down such accounts, companies would write reports and researchers (including us) would publish analyses to explain the evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures of online influence campaigns.

— RENÉE DIRESTA, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of analyses

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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

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Other technology at the library includes an automatic book sorter, a conveyor belt that scans returned books and sorts them for reshelving or return to other libraries.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Jensen Huang has argued that the doomsayers mistook the task of reading scans for the whole job.

— Han Wang, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of scans

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