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as in picture
something or someone that strongly resembles another
the girl is growing up to be the perfect image of her mother
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as in illustration
a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing
a cave with prehistoric images of wild animals
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as in idea
something imagined or pictured in the mind
a sentimental visit to her childhood home to see if it still matched her mental image of the place
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as in manifestation
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
a general who became for many the very image of the stoic warrior
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as in to depict
to present a picture of
in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark
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as in to describe
to give a representation or account of in words
the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant
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as in to picture
to form a mental picture of
anyone who still images the cape's coastline as a scene of unspoiled beauty is in for a rude awakening
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Recent Examples of image
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
The Fire Phone’s proprietary Fire OS lacked popular apps available in the Android and iOS app stores, and had a complicated multi‑camera screen system for displaying 3D images that used so much battery power that the handset often overheated.
—Greg Bensinger, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
Claudio Villanueva, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The researchers imaged them once a minute, much faster than scientists ever had before, starting at the stage just before the zygotes would normally adhere to the womb wall.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
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Noun
The bustling street scenes and seaside images that open and are interspersed throughout Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 are not period-movie re-creations.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
The Fire Phone’s proprietary Fire OS lacked popular apps available in the Android and iOS app stores, and had a complicated multi‑camera screen system for displaying 3D images that used so much battery power that the handset often overheated.
—Greg Bensinger, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
But imaging studies in the late 2000s revealed that many adults retain metabolically active brown fat, particularly in the neck and upper chest.
—Claudio Villanueva, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The researchers imaged them once a minute, much faster than scientists ever had before, starting at the stage just before the zygotes would normally adhere to the womb wall.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for image
Noun
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Regardless of how anyone might have felt about the new picture that Einstein’s greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, brought along with it, the behavior of physical phenomena in the Universe doesn’t lie.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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The preliminary visa data helps paint a fuller picture of immigration declines in the United States.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Even this basic illustration shows that human English includes variation in word usage and grammatical structures that breaks up information and conveys personal meaning.—
Laura Aull,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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The artist, then a girl, bit down on a slice of her Aunt Nelly’s cake, only to hit an old silver sixpence bearing an illustration of the extinct species.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This idea was unbearable, but watching her gasp for air was worse.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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What began as a risqué idea has grown into a cultural fixture in San Francisco, drawing skaters of all ages and backgrounds.—
Loureen Ayyoub,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There are a few different ways to interpret this most recent manifestation of the Administration’s talent for hypocrisy.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps some paper manifestations just in time for the year of the Fire Horse.—
Xuan Juliana Wang,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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For the 2021 vintage, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota created an original artwork entitled Universe of Mouton that depicts a beautiful silhouette of a human figure in nature.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
19 Mar. 2026
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While society hopefully won’t encounter an apocalyptic scenario like the one depicted in Project Hail Mary, a team at Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute has compiled a list of planetary nominees worth a closer look.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
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Police released images of the suspect described as a man between 40 and 49 years of age, about 5-feet-9 to 5-feet-10, weighing about 150 pounds.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Liz’s view The world Fink describes is a less efficient and more expensive one.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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Strugglers also reflect the larger societal and political shifts that have swept through India.—
Taran Khan,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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The early transition reflects a broader reality across Summit County, where thin snowpack and warm temperatures have shortened the ski season and pushed some winter operations to close early.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Who knows what inventions, ideas or technological feats will be imagined in gyms or on surfboards as these three Southern California teenagers unleash their brain power and love for having fun on the East Coast.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Within half a year, that detail — obsessively imagined, harped on, even — was up for debate again.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/image. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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