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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
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He's pictured here finishing a power clean rep in the McEachern High School weight room. Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026 They are pictured with their three daughters. Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026 Curry’s selections expanded beyond the realm of basketball, with the 38-year-old sporting everything from a tennis shoe made for Roger Federer (pictured below) to a pair of retro Air Jordans designed for the street. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2026 Many people will opt for a stackable washer/dryer to make use of the vertical space offered in a small laundry room, as per many of the laundry room ideas pictured above. Lindsey Mather, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2026 The design process took more than five years, a negotiation between the city’s strict hydraulic requirements and the neighborhood’s shifting wishes; the result was something no one had pictured in advance. Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 There's a secondary bathroom too, though this isn't pictured and we've not been given any details. Adam Williams april 05, New Atlas, 5 Apr. 2026 The group was pictured filming the proposal on their phones and clapping in celebration. Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 5 Apr. 2026 This serial presentation emphasized the relationship between the photographs rather than the singular sculpture pictured in each—a demonstration of her conviction that a successful artwork should change over time according to its own internal logic. Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictured
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  • Ordinary humans like Stephen’s selfish boss are depicted as giant walking eggs, while others are proportioned like bobble heads.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Duchamp also penciled in the back of the young girl’s hair in a mirror depicted in the ad.
    Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
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  • That leads you at times to think Mantello has imagined the play — with its flashbacks as Willy imagines the road not taken — as taking place inside Willy’s head.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of swing sets or seesaws, Noguchi imagined the land itself forming ridges, steps, and mounds that would invite free-form play.
    Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
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  • The contract included an up-front payment of $3 million, which Shields described as a signing bonus and has potential for significantly higher earnings through revenue sharing.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Residents inside the building described being jolted awake by the impact.
    Eva Andersen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
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  • What once drew a modest crowd now sees roughly 5,000 to 6,000 people pass through in a single day, sampling dishes from chefs with roots all over the world, Robinson said.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That deadline passed at the end of last month, and the NBA drew a glut of interest, including multiple offers with more than $1 billion in investment, The Athletic reported last week.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
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  • The actor portrayed Malcolm's younger brother Dewey, known for his smarts and wit.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • When Apollo 11 first landed on the lunar surface, the astronauts portrayed their accomplishment as the realization of a science fictional dream.
    Anastasia Klimchynskaya, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
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  • Neither is the location of the new stadium ideal -- or what was first envisioned, 12 years ago, as a waterfront facility nearer the Port of Miami or off Biscayne Bay neighboring the Heat arena.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • As his profile rose after 2021’s The Man From Waco, which too was initially envisioned as a concept record, Crockett found his crowds especially engaged with his onstage banter.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
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  • And then in 1844 came Robert Chambers’s best-selling proto-Darwinist Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which sketched a plausible outline of biological evolution.
    Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Musk also has sketched out a futuristic vision of building AI data centers on the moon with the help of the company’s Optimus robots and catapulting them into space.
    The Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
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  • Moving a blade back and forth to try to saw biscuits apart will make their layers stick (and ruin the rise).
    Ella Quittner, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Ruggeri says that, in comparison to saw palmetto, which gets far more attention.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2026

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“Pictured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictured. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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