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plural of print
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as in impressions
a perceptible trace left by pressure one telltale sign that I had been napping was the print left by the chenille bedspread on my cheek

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as in photos
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera we now get our prints developed online

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verb

present tense third-person singular of print
as in publishes
to produce and release for distribution in printed form the newspaper's motto remains "All the News That's Fit to Print"

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Recent Examples of prints
Noun
Graphic designers can repurpose artwork originally created for clients, while photographers can sell prints from their existing portfolios. Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 Matching sets haven’t gone anywhere in the athleisure world, and my students always come in with the cutest colors, prints, and designs. Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026 Available in two different prints - red stripes and blue star - these are sure to sell quickly. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 June 2026 This dress comes in 23 different colors and prints, from bold solids to geometrics and florals. Elaina Verhoff, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026 Talbot said the silk ceilings and walls in the content room tie the store back to its top-performing silk dresses, while custom tiger and leopard fabrics were inspired by some of Réalisation’s signature prints. Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 11 June 2026 Jacobs continued trailing the elk—looking for signs of browse and prints and always listening for the faintest sound—for the next four days and forty miles. Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 Reservations are handled by phone, penciled into grids that Boyd prints each month. Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026 Choose from different patterns, colors, and designs from classic stripes to bold modern prints, accented with tassel detail. ABC News, 6 June 2026
Verb
The fix is a lead magnet so useful your reader prints it and pins it up. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 This is a company that prints more revenue every time the tape gets chaotic, and 2026 has given it plenty of chaos to work with. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 May 2026 London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ceded to censorship requests issued by the Chinese firm that prints the institution’s exhibition catalogues, according to a new report from The Guardian, who unearthed the information via FOIA requests. News Desk, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026 Few places symbolize the move from print to digital more than Akalla, a district of Stockholm where the ST01 data center sits at a site once occupied by the factory that prints Sweden main newspaper, Kaun says. Michael Weissenstein, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025 The chances of winning the top prizes are astronomically low because the company prints billions of game pieces but only releases a handful of key winning ones. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025 His paternal grandma prints the flyers and helps get the word out, while his mom’s mom makes the costumes. Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025 Specifically, the surprise that comes with developing every roll of film is one of the biggest perks of the process, according to Quigley, who prints her photos regularly at her local camera store. Liz Regalia, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025 Instead of invasive surgeries, patients might someday swallow a capsule that travels to the injury site and prints new tissue directly on it. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prints
Noun
  • Roach also shared his impressions of Anthony following the trial.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Many have seen him in person, asked questions, and formed their own impressions.
    Matthew Shelter, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • Parents stood with children draped in Algerian flags while groups of young adults posed for photos and older supporters shared memories of previous World Cups and historic national team moments.
    J.M. Banks June 15, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
  • The day shift finally starts taking group photos, knocking out their letters rapidly, and moving on to task 4 simultaneously.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The company’s medical affairs team publishes the trial results in a top-tier journal, corporate communication issues a press release, and its commercial teams train sales representatives on key messages to communicate to doctors.
    Ivy Buche, Harvard Business Review, 12 June 2026
  • Each and every week, when Billboard publishes its charts again, Blackpink singer Jennie makes history in one form or another.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • But a reminder that contending teams are years and years in the making and more often than not have several different imprints on them.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • In the tale, an old, giant rhea ran so powerfully its steps left imprints in the sky, creating the constellation Choiols — known in the West as the Southern Cross.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • If paintings were like unedited photographs in the all-seeing eye of God—a record of human attitudes toward, and treatment of, the dog’s ubiquitous presence in life—then reality might explain why there are so many of them in art.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Karam, 32, and Stewart, 37, shared a joint carousel post on Instagram on Wednesday, June 3, featuring multiple photographs of Stewart's lavish proposal.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Somebody got to lick those stamps.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • The American Icons stamps are issued in panes of 13 and the Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current first-class mail cost.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • For the project, the group simulated hundreds of snapshots of four-dimensional (4D) spacetime with lattice quantum chromodynamics.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • Rumer also included photos of her emotional home birth with her then-boyfriend Derek, moments between her daughter and aunts Scout and Tallulah and snapshots of Louetta with her grandparents Bruce and Demi.
    Laura Millar, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • These pics need no explanation!
    Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • What remains in the movie field skews toward the streaming crowd-pleaser, and television voters, perhaps freed from the cinephile guilt that haunts Oscar season, tend to recognize (and reward) the pics that are flat-out fun to watch.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 June 2026

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