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plural of image
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verb

present tense third-person singular of image
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as in depicts
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 reflects
to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would the burnished chrome fixtures imaged the jewelry store's glittery merchandise

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Recent Examples of images
Noun
Lensed in New York by renowned portrait photographer Platon, the campaign unfolds in bold black-and-white images and a series of short films hinging on the five themes of friendship, respect, connection, trust and warmth, completed by behind-the-scenes moments. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025 Operators should also follow federal aviation rules when using drones for tasks like mapping, surveying or capturing images at public events. Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Oct. 2025 The book illustrates overthinking in a way that might make sense to a kid—a messy swirl of ideas and images that are difficult to piece together. Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 15 Oct. 2025 Along with the paragraph, the 50-year-old uploaded multiple images of D’Angelo, and ended with a photo of the two musicians together. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 15 Oct. 2025 Onstage, figurative images steal focus from the music. Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025 Videos and images circulating on social media show BASE jumpers leaping from El Capitan, unauthorized campers occupying closed campgrounds, and climbers scaling Half Dome’s cables without permits — all in violation of park regulations. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025 These images have a purpose, and both series reach for that goal in every frame. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025 These images will feature in an exhibition that will open at the Natural History Museum in London on Friday. Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
In June, Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for allowing its users to create infringing videos and still images on its site. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025 Dinkins, who was named one of Time’s Most Influential People in AI, interviewed people in African American communities in the Bay Area to get the oral histories that the project’s artificial intelligence uses to generate immersive projections on 14-foot walls — images the move and evolve. Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025 And that film was shown repeatedly on television, while still images blanketed newspapers. Time, 20 Sep. 2025 Some on the far right disseminated the footage and still images from it in order to further a clearly racist agenda. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025 Still images from a baby monitor camera showing a 2-year-old toddler boy sitting up in his crib. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for images
Noun
  • Those moments, the quiet ones between pictures, are the ones that live on in the images.
    Vogue, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The photo carousel also included throwback pictures of the couple from over the years, with some dating all the way back to their time together as preschool classmates.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The colorful illustrations in this book are like a glimpse into a child’s imagination, with fun surprises to be found on every page.
    Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These start with different illustrations of down-home life that gradually give way to drawings of fires, mayhem and syringes plunged into eyeballs as a saccharin-sweet song from sisterly duo Patience and Prudence plays.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His ample thoughts on the matter are informed by a lifetime spent in conscious retrospect on his accomplishments and how the perception of his relationship with them is shared publicly.
    Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • On Monday, Ryan Day, the head coach of Penn State's Big Ten rival Ohio State, was asked his thoughts about Franklin's dismissal.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • One of Reichardt’s greatest inspirations is to create a texture of political conflict involving the Vietnam War and its manifestations in American society—news reports, marches and protests, voices of reaction, police repression—and to integrate into the story as inescapable elements of daily life.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The tort claim asked for at least $300,000 in damages on behalf of the woman, who’s suffering from nausea, anxiety and sleeplessness as physical manifestations of emotional distress, Gordon wrote in the claim.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The driver in the boat crash The show depicts Paul as a black sheep of the family.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Honor’s promo depicts the Robot Phone doing everything from entertaining children and taking selfies to skydiving and gazing at the stars.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jasanoff retraced some of Conrad’s epic journeys, which inspired me to redo the expedition Matthiessen describes in The Snow Leopard.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just one of the scares in store for the series, which Nicotero describes as a cross between Survivor and The Blair Witch Project.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Seeing New England in the top 10 in both QB EPA (Drake Maye is sixth) and defense/special teams EPA (10th) reflects well on the Patriots under first-year coach Mike Vrabel.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Welcoming Muttaqi to Delhi reflects this approach.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is lovely writing in which the author weaves information about the history of maps and how they are made, and Dolores imagines her parents in love in their little apartment where her mother/aunt took care of her as a baby.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the first episode, Adeline shows Ed a comic book with graphic Holocaust imagery and imagines Ilse Koch, a Nazi, played by Krieps.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Images.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/images. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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