as in portrait
a vivid representation in words of someone or something
the author's meticulous portraiture of a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century
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Recent Examples of portraiture
These pictures can have the feel of both formal portraiture and, because of their accuracy, scientific drawings documenting local animal species.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
Subsequent galleries explore his landscapes and architectural studies from travels to Italy, Spain, and Morocco and show how paintings of fashionable Parisiennes by Sargent and his peers established a new, more modern kind of portraiture.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2025
The fervor for Black portraiture peaked and plummeted in just four years.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Anything lost through the co-writing is mostly in the realm of portraiture.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
Subsequent galleries explore his landscapes and architectural studies from travels to Italy, Spain, and Morocco and show how paintings of fashionable Parisiennes by Sargent and his peers established a new, more modern kind of portraiture.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2025
The fervor for Black portraiture peaked and plummeted in just four years.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Anything lost through the co-writing is mostly in the realm of portraiture.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portraiture
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Even without all that, L.A. has a raft of problems on its hands, and the close-up at the moment is not a pretty portrait.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
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Rosenheim believes that early photographic portraits empowered working-class Americans.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 June 2025
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This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Yet this description is incongruous with the footage being described.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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Cruz, the son of an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who came to the U.S. in the 1970s, said he’s angered by the federal government’s portrayal that anyone without documents living in the United States is a criminal.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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With his tongue-in-cheek portrayal of himself, outlandish costumes (a wedding veil and a hair band adorned with chess pieces are among his more subtle accessories) and unabating love of drama, the Scottish multihyphenate has subverted the norms of TV host.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
13 June 2025
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But amidst this necessary reckoning, depictions of joy and meaning have been lost.—
Samantha Mann,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Before that, Google was also forced to temporarily block Gemini's image generation capabilities after the AI model provided inaccurate outputs for historical depictions.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
4 June 2025
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“Portraiture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portraiture. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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