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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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as in vivid
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
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The show traces the life and career of Ringgold, who introduced Black women’s pictorial, narrative and craft traditions.
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La Jolla Light,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 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.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Church, for all his scientific curiosity, was not moved to convert Darwinism into pictorial rhetoric.
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Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The show traces the life and career of Ringgold, who introduced Black women’s pictorial, narrative and craft traditions.
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La Jolla Light,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 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.
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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.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
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Joe Kramm | Courtesy of Francis Interiors The gold background is a spread of bold graphic lines, undulating shapes and coiling circular motifs, referencing the work of French artist, sculptor and designer Jean Dunand (1877–1942).
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But, for now, and with this book, Vance seems to be keeping the door open to a rapprochement with Leo—say, a personal encounter at the Vatican that would provide a vivid photo op.
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Someone had given her letters written by her mother, a gift that made her mother’s voice feel vivid and alive.
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Roughly two-thirds of American households own their primary residence, according to the Federal Survey of Consumer Finances from 2022, the most recent edition.
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The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to nonagenarian Italian director Tinto Brass at its upcoming edition with a pre-opening screening of his London-shot 1967 pop thriller Deadly Sweet starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin.
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Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition.
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Swift did indeed attend the wedding, but no photographic evidence of petal flinging has been shared–yet.
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Ospreay got descriptive about his post-wedding activities before Swerve Strickland interrupted him.
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Marcus Lee, an African American Studies professor at Princeton University, often tells his students that descriptive representation differs from substantive representation.
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Radiological weapons can be detected by a Geiger counter, while chemical weapons can usually be identified by reagents, electronic sensors, and special detection sheets sensitive to things like nerve agents.
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More than anything, at least so far, Stearns seems more comfortable with spread sheets than ballplayers.
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In Sally Potter’s 1992 masterpiece Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of a British aristocrat who is born in the Elizabethan era and goes on to live for hundreds of years—oh, and who also changes genders at around the age of 30—is brought to bold and brilliant visual life.
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Literature, theater and visual arts had existed all along in the very cultures the Puritan settlers sought to escape.
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The title mirrors the tabloid’s back page headline after the 29-point comeback in Game 4 of the finals.
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The tabloid also broke the news that MSG was not the couple’s first choice wedding venue.
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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