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a visual design intended to look like someone or something
The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.
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Recent Examples of representations
These digital, blockchain-native representations of fiat currency are quicker and cheaper to send, offer faster settlement and are accessible globally.
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Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The ability to efficiently factor group representations is important for several real-world tasks.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Yet for all of these strides, representations of HIV in film are still hard to come by.
—Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
The signs are symbolic representations of those constellations, and each one comprises 30 degrees of the celestial longitude of the ecliptic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
But the data published by the UC-Berkeley researchers does not fully match ICE’s public representations.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
There are poems where bunnies and deer are characters, where fishsticks think and the moon speaks, where the speaker and representations of the speaker interact.
—Literary Hub
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Both previous cinematic representations of Osborn — Dafoe in the original trilogy and Dane DeHaan in the TAS2 — have featured the character as white.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 21 Aug. 2025
Judge Lin concluded that Tesla's representations were widespread enough to affect California purchasers and could form the basis for class-wide claims under consumer protection and fraud statutes.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The ability to efficiently factor group representations is important for several real-world tasks.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Yet for all of these strides, representations of HIV in film are still hard to come by.
—Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
The signs are symbolic representations of those constellations, and each one comprises 30 degrees of the celestial longitude of the ecliptic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
But the data published by the UC-Berkeley researchers does not fully match ICE’s public representations.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
There are poems where bunnies and deer are characters, where fishsticks think and the moon speaks, where the speaker and representations of the speaker interact.
—Literary Hub
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Both previous cinematic representations of Osborn — Dafoe in the original trilogy and Dane DeHaan in the TAS2 — have featured the character as white.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 21 Aug. 2025
Judge Lin concluded that Tesla's representations were widespread enough to affect California purchasers and could form the basis for class-wide claims under consumer protection and fraud statutes.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for representations
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Lord entered the truck in competitions in Louisiana and Texas and loved to park it in front of the Henderson building to take pictures of it, Michelle said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Sep. 2025
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Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This provision appears to not only ban depictions of trans people but could also potentially be applied to drag queens.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
16 Sep. 2025
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Liu directs heart-expanding, tender performances out of his leads, and the screenplay by Martyna Majok forgoes the maudlin or condescending notes of so many Hollywood depictions of immigration stories.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Highlights include intimate portraits by Nan Goldin and a monochrome image of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe during their hedonistic era in New York.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Her posts around this time were more often portraits of the outsized characters that dominate conservative politics than about actual policy.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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By 2 payouts and previous drawings here.—
Jay Cannon,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The chain of landforms to the west of Kauai is so small that it was not easily spotted in the satellite images taken as Kiko roared across the Pacific toward Hawaii as a Category 4 hurricane.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Miami Gardens Police released images of dogs in the neighborhood suspected to have been involved in the attack.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Since the 2010s, however, his photographs have started to appear with greater frequency and impact in small exhibitions throughout the Pacific Northwest, earning Matsura an ever-widening circle of admiration and appreciation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The winning photographs were selected from more than 5,800 spectacular entries submitted by astrophotographers hailing from over 60 countries.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Representations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/representations. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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