as in photo
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera
the old photograph was faded but still clear enough to make out
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Recent Examples of photograph
Khushbu Shah, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2025
Isherwood, then 63, posed for Hockney in their Santa Monica home, but Bachardy, 33, was overseas at the time, and so Hockney painted him from a photograph.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Jana Gerberding photographed the campaign for the Roger Vivier x Mytheresa collection, training her lens on model Sara Dijkink.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Featuring recipes, photographs, and stories from the show, Lakshmi says there is so much more than that.
—Khushbu Shah, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2025
Isherwood, then 63, posed for Hockney in their Santa Monica home, but Bachardy, 33, was overseas at the time, and so Hockney painted him from a photograph.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
To put this into perspective, while CORONA photographed approximately 590 million square miles of the earth’s surface during its entire multiyear run, Planet photographs 186 million square miles every day.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Jana Gerberding photographed the campaign for the Roger Vivier x Mytheresa collection, training her lens on model Sara Dijkink.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for photograph
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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The photo itself has to speak, has to have aura and energy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Tuffin will produce the Inspector Brant pictures through Strong Island.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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Flick and his counterpart Eder Sarabia — himself a former Barca assistant under Quique Setien — were pictured in discussion during the session.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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For years, the traditional thinking was that October was a time when moviegoers wanted a break between summer tentpoles and year-event event pics.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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The group shared their latest photos on Reddit’s r/pics, where the post quickly earned more than 21,000 upvotes and hundreds of admiring comments.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Her posts also included black-and-white snapshots from inside the Hotel and photos in front of New York’s Broni & Belle Pizzeria.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025
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The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) AirNow map, which provides a real-time snapshot of air quality, showed that air pollution levels around Sweet Home, northeast of Eugene, were in the unhealthy range on Friday morning.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Photograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photograph. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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