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pictured

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verb

past tense of picture
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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
Akhibi, sitting in front of a Peak and Pace flag, pictured at a club event. — Megan Sauer, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026 And nobody pictured Kraft suddenly talking about them, as if Deshaun Watson suddenly took over his body. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026 In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 In the first look at the actor in character she is pictured sitting at a wooden desk with a CEO nameplate in what appears to be an airy office. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 Cobain was last pictured on the front row of the Moschino resort 2020 show in 2019, and walked a red carpet in 2018. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026 Elliot Page, Caleb Hearon, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker were also pictured at the demonstration on Thursday. — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026 Although the pair walked the red carpet individually, they were pictured holding hands and posing in a sweet embrace inside the event. — Meg Walters, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026 Sometimes, what — or, in this case, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. — Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictured
Adjective
  • Connected trainers, with streaks, reminders and visualized progress, target exactly that motivational gap.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Salort-Pons’s X-ray analysis showed that this costume was the one Velázquez had originally depicted Olivares wearing.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Like the woolly rhino, the Irish elk is depicted on the cave walls of Chauvet in France.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • His first project at the house was a film starring Demi Moore that imagined Gucci as a family business owned by a wealthy matriarch in California.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Inspired by Cuba and its changing political and cultural landscape, Chalayan imagined severe uniform-like shells washing away to expose new possibilities.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Tensions had already intensified Monday when Pakistani fighter jets struck sites in eastern Afghanistan that Islamabad described as militant hideouts.
    — MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Maduko’s behavior, as described in the report, appears to have grown increasingly aggressive in his alleged harassment of women in the CSCU system.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This year’s Coachella, headlined by Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G, drew the most concurrent viewers in the history of Coachella on YouTube, according to the company.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Connor says Park City drew more than 80 visiting chefs for its four-day run, while Wynn’s three-day Revelry featured more than 30 chefs from five continents.
    — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
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
  • Her excellent debut, 2007’s Free Food for Millionaires, features upwardly mobile Korean Americans whose desire for security Lee portrayed both sympathetically and critically.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Among the 41 characters portrayed as having narcolepsy, 68% were depicted as incapable or unreliable.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As for the cabin configuration, it’s been re-envisioned to showcase Bentley’s stylistic progression.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The original Hyperloop concept envisioned passenger or cargo pods moving at extremely high speeds through low-pressure tubes.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Pictured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictured. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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