as in photo
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
Don't Miss Most visitors hit up the potholes, take a pic at a cliff, and leave.
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Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
No one looks exactly like their pic.
—Laura House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
One of the most important elements in crafting the perfect festival fashion pic is posing next to the various art installations throughout the festival grounds.
—Carolyn Burt, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026
The screenshots the Canadian sent over later showed someone with a Miami number using my ProPublica headshot as their profile pic.
—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2026
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Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
No one looks exactly like their pic.
—Laura House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
One of the most important elements in crafting the perfect festival fashion pic is posing next to the various art installations throughout the festival grounds.
—Carolyn Burt, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026
The screenshots the Canadian sent over later showed someone with a Miami number using my ProPublica headshot as their profile pic.
—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pic
Noun
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People revel in the nostalgia of ten or twenty or thirty years ago by digging up old photos and posting them—photos from birthday parties or career milestones or from a moment spent sitting under the final sparks of daylight on a beach.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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This photo provided by Air New Zealand shows sleeping pods in a mock-up of a plane cabin.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The committee launched a parallel investigation into whether Cawthorn was engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, his distant cousin, after explicit videos and photographs circulated of Cawthorn.—
Mary Ramsey
April 22,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Apr. 2026
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Between these two missions and their iconic photographs was the first Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, 1970.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2026
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Dispatches are occasional snapshots of people, places, scenes or moments from around Georgia that our reporters come across.—
Adam Van Brimmer,
AJC.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Today's Jenna Bush Hager celebrated the siblings’ first moments together with a trio of snapshots on her Instagram account, showing Mila and Poppy peering into Hal’s bassinet and snuggling up in the hospital bed alongside their mom and the newborn.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Pic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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