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plural of picture
as in film
the art or business of making a movie hoping for a career in pictures

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verb

present tense third-person singular of picture
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as in depicts
to present a picture of the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence

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as in sketches
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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Noun
  • The film, which will release in theaters May 23, will feature Tom Cruise behind the wheel of a Jeep Wrangler 4xe, Stellantis said.
    Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • Affleck portrayed the Caped Crusader in multiple films, including 2017's Justice League.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • And Paul depicts his own explicitly visionary encounters with a long-dead Jesus as equivalent to the earlier encounters reported by the apostles.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The painting in question, Portrait of a Gentleman, his Daughter and a Servant, depicts a father clad in a fashionable black suit with a pleated collar.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Misty imagines sitting on a toilet and using real toilet paper.
    Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Tim, Victoria, and Piper The episode begins with an obnoxious fake-out where Tim imagines killing himself, before sending most of the Ratliffs, save Saxon, off to the monastery so Tim and Victoria can have a look around this place where their daughter intends to live for at least a year.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The term which gained traction in the 2010s, describes artists whose seemingly overnight success appears manufactured rather than earned.
    Carly Lewis-Oduntan, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Google’s post about this feature describes it as a way to help you tune hearing aids into audio broadcasts, but the technology has wider applications.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Today, the average date night tends to be a bit more than just dinner and a movie, something that Donald is fully aware of.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 15 May 2025
  • The team was documented in a must-see sports movie featuring Brad Pitt, derived from a book by Michael Lewis.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • But the story never leaves us with a sense that anything is incomplete, as Shear eloquently portrays the ways that near-misses can still feel like cataclysmic life events.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The actress that portrays Vanessa, Lauren Buglioli, has been working steadily since the mid-2010s, with guest appearances on series like FBI and the Dynasty reboot (which also featured Goings), and films like Jessica Lange's The Great Lillian Hall and the horror anthology film Horror Noire.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is purposeful filmmaking, firm in its convictions.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2025
  • His gaze has reinvented the forms of contemporary filmmaking, creating a historiography in images that has exerted an incalculable influence on countless film directors.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Interestingly enough, the house also sees an uptick in attendance during the summer months; Kinney notes that people from Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati often work in a visit while in town to see their home baseball teams face off against the Cleveland Guardians.
    Annie Zaleski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Pictures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictures. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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