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pictured

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verb

past tense of picture
1
as in depicted
to present a picture of the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence

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as in drew
to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils

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Recent Examples of pictured
Verb
Though pictured largely unfurnished, the area looks well-proportioned, with room for a sofa and a coffee table, plus an entertainment center, even if those trademark sloping walls might make installing some furniture a little awkward. New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 Choose a plan Quiz time 🪖 Dan Driscoll, pictured here, just resigned. Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026 Kelce is pictured wearing the new fall collection, which is available to shop or pre-order now. ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Above, the actor is pictured in a scene from 1978’s Days Of Heaven,’ alongside Brooke Adams. Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 Elevated Boardwalk Boardwalks—like the one pictured in this design by Nievera Williams—serve as an idyllic garden path for those who have wetlands, have water on the property, or simply prefer an elevated walkway. Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026 Two of their other children, Romeo and Harper, were also pictured watching the show from another area. Meg Walters, InStyle, 29 Aug. 2026 Parton pictured with some of her stage wigs in Los Angeles on March 10, 1980. Shima Oliaee, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 Sound’s Round 2 Impresario-musician Mike Reed’s multigenre, multivenue festival, Sound & Gravity, returns for its second year with acts like Son Lux (pictured, above) and Chicago’s Jessica Risker. Web Behrens, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictured
Adjective
  • She is also equipped with an Energy Storage System designed to manage onboard energy flows based on envisaged operations, capable of peak shaving and silent operation at anchor, contributing to a substantial reduction in fuel usage.
    Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • Kylie and Antonia are depicted as recent college graduates, making Wood and Artrip too old to portray them within the sequel's timeline.
    Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The object being depicted becomes a vehicle less for the task of representation than for activity.
    Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Layers are everywhere in 2026, but this time the haircut is being imagined as less edgy and a bit softer—more flowing, more subtle.
    Lucy Binder, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2026
  • From the outset of the original life-size Gundam project, this has turned into something far greater than was initially imagined.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Anton, whose gaze at the couple can only be described as wistful.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Samba was born at the sanctuary Samba was born at Project Survival Cat Haven and lived there with her sister, Rose, according to Anderson, who described her as an unusually sweet animal with an exceptionally friendly personality.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That inaugural gathering drew more than 600 people to a small basement space in the West Bottoms, revealing an appetite for Japanese cultural events that organizers had not anticipated.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the conclusion some drew after rogue OpenAI models escaped a test environment and hacked tech startup Hugging Face.
    Josh Feldman, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The two most prominent, Hebrew and Yiddish, have always been unlikely bedfellows, frequently fighting with each other.
    Ilan Stavans, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Initial support is near the breakout point around $660, although a pullback of that magnitude is unlikely.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For nearly two decades, Rahul Gandhi has been portrayed as an entitled and ineffectual politician who could neither revive the Indian National Congress party nor challenge the iron rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    Rana Ayyub, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Multiple actresses portrayed the activist and icon on screen.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • If Tom Ford as envisioned by the man himself felt like the most glamorous of nights out, Ackermann considers his iteration of the brand the liminal space that follows.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
  • That facility is envisioned as a commercial-scale manufacturing plant capable of initially producing a few reactor reload batches per year and expanding over time.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

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“Pictured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictured. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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