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consisting of or relating to pictures
that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa
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producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color
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Recent Examples of pictorial
Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Salinas said her paintings represent a pictorial study of her cultural identity and roots in Mexico.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Salinas said her paintings represent a pictorial study of her cultural identity and roots in Mexico.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
Adjective
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Seth Eli Barlow,
Arkansas Online,
28 Apr. 2026
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Anti-dictatorship, but for kids Serkis scrubs the story of its violence, at least in any graphic manner.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Brain scans were not widely available, and there was scant knowledge of sleep stages such as REM sleep, when more vivid dreams take place.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Over the course of the day and evening, old secrets, resentments, and regrets bubble up to the surface and Altman crafts a devastating meditation on memory, identity, and the necessity as well as the danger of a vivid fantasy life.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
1 May 2026
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Always a Runner won the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Oaks on Friday night, the first time the race for top 3-year-old fillies has been run under the lights in prime time at Churchill Downs.—
Stephen Whyno,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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The fourth edition of the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards received submissions from more than 8,400 filmmakers representing 162 countries and territories around the world.—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Expect launch photos, snaps of historic hardware destined for space, images of the night sky and, from time to time, photographic evidence of our entertainment editor Ian Stokes infiltrating Amazon's London office to sneak a peek at their May the 4th Star Wars offering … allegedly.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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These were photographic products for mass audiences.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Whoop’s sleep data tends to be more prescriptive than descriptive.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
22 Apr. 2026
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The complete lack of descriptive wall labels for individual objects, still a matter of debate among the curators, according to Govan, privileges looking.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Investors are finally understand that a living ocean is a natural capital asset that matters to the balance sheet.—
Natalie Sum Yue Chung,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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Place the second puff pastry sheet on top, making sure that the edges are aligned.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
2 May 2026
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At the back of this room the ceiling is vaulted, adding visual interest and enhancing the sense of space.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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Every week, The Sacramento Bee’s visual journalists capture the moments — big and small — that tell the story of our community.—
Nathaniel Levine,
Sacbee.com,
3 May 2026
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Local Minneapolis prosecutors had invoked the law to suppress a sensational, anti-Semitic tabloid, The Saturday Press, which had been relentlessly attacking city officials as corrupt and in league with Jewish mobsters.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 2026
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Known for its screeching headlines, up-to-the-second scoops, and contentious practice of paying off sources for scandalous tips, the tabloid has widened its pitiless lens to include officials across the political spectrum.—
Paula Mejía,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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