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effigy

noun

Definition of effigynext
as in portrait
a depiction of a person

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Recent Examples of effigy In a scene where the suffragists burn an effigy of President Wilson, Natalio amplifies the turbulent tone with intense movement from the ensemble. — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Last year, the same Moygashel pyre burned an effigy of migrants in a boat. — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 10 July 2026 Now, a group of tech and faith leaders, erected an inflatable effigy of a shirtless Musk in Times Square seeking to draw attention to the company’s poor AI safety track record. — Jordan Novet,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 June 2026 An effigy of him was even hung at West Ham United. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for effigy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for effigy
  1. portrait
  2. portrayal
  3. image
  4. replica
  5. carbon
  6. likeness
Noun
  • Pretenders, the portrait of this first-ballot frontwoman’s venerable punk outfit that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, gives you a possible answer pretty quickly.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
  • For the first time, Zvyagintsev made a movie outside of Russia, moving Minotaur’s production to Latvia to stand in for a brutally frank portrait of his homeland at the dawn of the Ukraine war.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of portrait
Noun
  • The film received a very positive reception but its nearly four-hour runtime and the deeply unsettling nature of Gibney’s portrayal also seemed to have exhausted the crowd.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Suffice it to say, a QB's rookie year is not always an accurate portrayal of the player that QB will become.
    — Austin Mock, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of portrayal
Noun
  • Light enters, and an image is reflected, but one’s consciousness is scaleable, elastic, shrinkable to the space within the glass.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • By now, Donohue would have been confident that Haaland was factually onside, but there was still the final stage, which is to approve an image that would be sent to the broadcasters.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of image
Noun
  • Just then, the strains of a familiar song wafted across the store, and Valencia and Zegarra followed it, past a Lightning McQueen replica, to a tiny area where a half-dozen child-size chairs were arranged before a screen.
    — Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Accompanied by some technology — radars, satellite phones and whatnot — and a volleyball replica of Wilson from Castaway, Tez spent weeks in the Pacific with pods of dolphins, friendly seagulls and his own thoughts.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of replica
Noun
  • The agreement also comes as countries examine nuclear power as part of efforts to strengthen energy security and reduce carbon emissions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Sitting five feet above the water, sailors suffer from severe blind spots caused by the towering presence of the carbon-fiber wing sail.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of carbon
Noun
  • Underwood, the five-star recruit from the Detroit area who commanded a multimillion-dollar name, image and likeness deal to sign with Michigan, had completed only 11 passes before getting a last-second reprieve.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • This included managing the rights to her image, name and likeness — at times, to controversial ends.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of likeness

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