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a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera a coworker handed around some vacation pics

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Recent Examples of pic The K-pop contingent caused a commotion, with Blackpink’s Lisa snapping pics with Stray Kids’ Felix. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025 The cute green owl face streams 4K HD video and pushes 1080p pics to the Hibird app. Kat Merck, Wired News, 24 Sep. 2025 Like any good barbecue IRL, the chat is mostly meat pics, cooking tips (with a dose of half-brags) and occasional smack talk. Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025 Spanish sales agents flip that the other way round for France, talking up more broader audience plays, quite a few these days genre pics, genre’s consolidation as a theatrical proposition, bound for Sitges. New Talent Latin America began to recuperate its industry around the turn of the century. John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pic
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Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Kayla Rupp, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Scott shared photos of the pair at the event on Instagram, including a snap of the two posing in glittery outfits.
    Jolene Latimer, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Evidence also allegedly showed him in photographs and videos taken around the time of the attack in combat gear, carrying weapons and standing with armed militants, sometimes wearing NRB insignia and Hamas-style headbands.
    Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Digital images and videos are creating a visual record different from that of the photographs, newspaper headlines, and television of an earlier era.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The only thing better than being a stargazer is making memories with colorful snapshots!
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The end result is a magnificent snapshot of deep space, created from particles of light that had travelled thousands of years to reach their destination.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025

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