pics

noun

variants or pix
plural of pic
as in photos
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 pics Alongside Stalter in the pics is fellow cast member Barrett Foa. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 New Custom Framing Options Are Now at Michaels To make your favorite beach pics even more personal, Michaels also added over 15 brand-new custom mat templates in its stores. — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2026 Use Prime Day as an opportunity to upgrade your fit pics. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2026 And with that in mind here are our pics for the top five micheladas in the Los Angeles area. — Richard Guzman, Daily News, 24 June 2026 So put away the cute baby pics, AJ Dybantsa. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 24 June 2026 All the previous Toy Story pics received A Cinemascores with the exception of Toy Story 2, which was an A+. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 June 2026 These pics need no explanation! — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026 What remains in the movie field skews toward the streaming crowd-pleaser, and television voters, perhaps freed from the cinephile guilt that haunts Oscar season, tend to recognize (and reward) the pics that are flat-out fun to watch. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pics
  1. photos
  2. photographs
  3. snapshots
Noun
  • The Norwegian government ultimately euthanized Freya after she was deemed a threat to human safety – with people getting dangerously close to her in the water for photos, or throwing objects at her, despite officials warning them to stay away.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Yet when the England versus Norway matchup became official, social media was immediately flooded with photos, videos, edits, and mashups of the two in their yellow and black bumble bee Dortmund uniforms.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026
Definition of photos
Noun
  • As this July Fourth approached, FOUND on the Guadalupe River still had about 1,800 items awaiting reunification, about half of them photographs.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • For those who cannot visit in person, the virtual tour has the same information with photographs.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Definition of photographs
Noun
  • By Jennifer Barger Special to The Washington Post One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
  • But caution about the wrong thing, paper instead of data, snapshots instead of live feeds, is no longer protective.
    — Matthew White, Fortune, 7 July 2026
Definition of snapshots

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