as in describes
to give a representation or account of in words
he limned the scene in the courtroom so perfectly I could practically see it
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The term which gained traction in the 2010s, describes artists whose seemingly overnight success appears manufactured rather than earned.—
Carly Lewis-Oduntan,
refinery29.com,
13 Mar. 2025 -
Google’s post about this feature describes it as a way to help you tune hearing aids into audio broadcasts, but the technology has wider applications.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
13 Mar. 2025
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But the story never leaves us with a sense that anything is incomplete, as Shear eloquently portrays the ways that near-misses can still feel like cataclysmic life events.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
8 Mar. 2025
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The actress that portrays Vanessa, Lauren Buglioli, has been working steadily since the mid-2010s, with guest appearances on series like FBI and the Dynasty reboot (which also featured Goings), and films like Jessica Lange's The Great Lillian Hall and the horror anthology film Horror Noire.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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And Paul depicts his own explicitly visionary encounters with a long-dead Jesus as equivalent to the earlier encounters reported by the apostles.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The painting, which depicts an African prince, turned out to be a genuine Klimt.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Limns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limns. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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