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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 graphic
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
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
Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Gauguin was castigated for failing to shake off European pictorial traditions, and for appropriating non-European traditions.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
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Adjective
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
Noun
Guests enjoy regional meals and vintage art, plus cycling and hiking trails and, most notably, Ruta de los Pueblos Blancos, a route through southern Spain’s most pictorial white villages.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Gauguin was castigated for failing to shake off European pictorial traditions, and for appropriating non-European traditions.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
Noun
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This edition will almost certainly be memorable, but many iterations of the Border War have been exactly that.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Barbera, 75, is the festival’s longest serving artistic director, having been at the helm since the 2012 edition.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Becca Martin-Brown,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
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Investigators said the contractor engaged extensively with users on the platform, viewing graphic photos and videos while on duty and even using his government computer to chat with people posting explicit content.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sugar maples turn bright red, and red maples change from vivid red to orange to bright yellow.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Under Porra’s direction and through Sebastián Cabrera’s painterly cinematography, the film conjures a vivid and haunting portrait of the colonial Caribbean.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite the budget-friendly price point, the sheets are a clear favorite among Amazon shoppers as more than 6,000 have snapped them up in the past month alone, and a whopping 71,000 have awarded them a perfect rating.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Line a large baking sheet with paper towels.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Displayed in the same first-floor gallery, Because (2018) comprises artworks composed of photographs in wooden frames under a curtain embroidered with a phrase explaining what triggered her photographic act.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This project became both an ethnographic and photographic study of how women inhabit, resist, and reimagine their roles in a context denned by deep contradictions – beauty and chaos, devotion and repression, tradition and transformation.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Employ descriptive headlines, bullet lists and comparison tables.—
Denis Sinelnikov,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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On sleep in particular, Whoop is distinctly more prescriptive than descriptive.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Daily Express, a British tabloid, floated the rumor that the proposal took place at Powell Gardens in Kingsville, just east of Lee’s Summit.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Aug. 2025
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The couple were intensely private, having managed to develop their relationship over the course of nine months before tabloids picked up on it.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In explaining the oversight for such a highly visual social media app, Meta claimed limited resources and higher priorities.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Some focus on breathing, others on a visual image, mantra, or sound.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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