as in photograph
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera
an album of wedding photos
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as in to photograph
to take a photograph of
photoed the historic mansion for a decorating magazine
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Our coverage will be worth its weight in gold, with Team USA profiles, interviews with Olympians past and present, a look inside the Olympics Village, photo galleries, videos and much more.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
After Monday's practice, the Patriots social media team shared a photo and videos from the session, seeming to show Maye throwing a deep ball.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
It should be shaped by the people who live here, raise families here, and will still be here long after the ribbon-cutting photos are forgotten.
—Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
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British tennis player Jack Draper is the campaign star for Vuori‘s new Hardkore Short, spotlighting the performance and lifestyle brand’s latest launch with a series of photos by Aaron Feaver ahead of his return to the court for the 2026 tennis season.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Our coverage will be worth its weight in gold, with Team USA profiles, interviews with Olympians past and present, a look inside the Olympics Village, photo galleries, videos and much more.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
After Monday's practice, the Patriots social media team shared a photo and videos from the session, seeming to show Maye throwing a deep ball.
—Matt Schooley, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
It should be shaped by the people who live here, raise families here, and will still be here long after the ribbon-cutting photos are forgotten.
—Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
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Annie's husband, and Savannah's brother-in-law, is Tommaso Cioni, according to Page Six, which published photographs of the pair leaving their home in Tucson.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Scammers are now able to create entire fake identities — including photographs, social media histories, real‑time chat responses and even AI‑generated voices or video calls.—
Joshua Sidorowicz,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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But the series of pics proved that Bey lived it up and joined Benito in paying tribute to his Puerto Rican heritage.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
17 Feb. 2026
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Grace was most recently seen in the Paramount pic Regretting You.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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To get the monthly employment snapshot, the BLS surveys about 121,000 US employers, accounting for 631,000 work sites (covering more than a quarter of overall employment).—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Conclusion Taken together, these space systems show how military awareness has shifted from occasional snapshots to near-continuous observation.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Photo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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