REPRESENTATIONS Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

representations

noun

plural of representation

as in pictures

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 Founded by Paul Kohner in 1938, The Kohner Agency is the second oldest in Los Angeles behind WMA (now WME) with long traditions in talent representations. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026 Such false representations would likely violate relevant state law. — Benjamin Swasey, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026 This is when models take in large-scale data to learn to predict which word comes next in an input, building foundational representations of language. — Greta Reich, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 The suit specifically challenges Meta’s representations that the glasses were designed for privacy and that users remained in control of their data. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026 Her massive concrete site-work, which takes up the entirety of the Geffen Galleries plaza, is peppered with fragmentary representations of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl and the simulated footprints of Californian fauna. — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 Still other explanations presume that the gods’ artistic representations in ritual settings are the basis of the meaning of their multiform appearances. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 This involves high-resolution 3D virtual representations of the fabric itself (capturing weight, drape, weave structure and mechanical stretch). — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 Growing up, pop culture’s representations of girlhood included a blonde Wakefield twin from Sweet Valley High, a post-makeover Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, and a big-breasted bombshell manufactured by some dorks with a Commodore 64. — Lisa Whittington-Hill, Longreads, 27 Aug. 2026

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This is on top of Perez Hilton and plenty of other sites (Gawker included) that would just flat-out insult people, draw nasty things on their pictures, and just generally malign them.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Post-ballet, Sorbara will walk ten blocks south of Lincoln Center for a borscht martini at Russian Samovar, where, fittingly, the walls are adorned with pictures of Baryshnikov.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of pictures

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Imitation isn’t always a form of flattery, as evidenced by these stars’ reactions to on-screen depictions of their lives.

— Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
At times, Kalshi used the marks of other soccer leagues outside of Mexico instead of generic depictions.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of depictions

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Earlier this year, Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons, a scholar on Velázquez who is curating an exhibition on portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares, published his findings in the Museo Prado’s ARS Magazine.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
The portraits will put a smile on any dog lover’s face, but Friedman’s favorite part is hearing people talk about their dog.

— Cody Godwin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of portraits

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But for the rest of the exhibit’s run, the museum will display the bug in its entirety, in addition to sculpture, photographs and video that document how Ali has spent the last 15 years becoming her creature alter ego.

— Siran Babayan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The $74 million mission was designed to snap photographs of Mars and study the planet's atmosphere for up to 10 months, but did perform science for over a year and continued to orbit the Red Planet through October 2022.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of photographs

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