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line drawings

noun

plural of line drawing
as in watercolors

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  1. portraits
  2. blueprints
  3. representations
Noun
  • Max was known for his portraits of figures in rock music and politics — everyone from the Beatles to Barack Obama to Taylor Swift.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Styled by de Rakoff in collaboration with each woman, the portraits feature pieces from Lafayette 148’s fall 2026 collection, selected to reflect each subject’s personality, style and the demands of her day.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of portraits
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  • For more than a century, college football has inspired the building of vast concrete-and-steel on-campus cathedrals — only for the names on the blueprints to become historical footnotes.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The genes serve as blueprints for making proteins that drive brain development, but researchers lacked visibility into how those proteins do the work.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of blueprints
Noun
  • Such false representations would likely violate relevant state law.
    — Benjamin Swasey, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
  • This is when models take in large-scale data to learn to predict which word comes next in an input, building foundational representations of language.
    — Greta Reich, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of representations
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“Line drawings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20drawings. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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