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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
Both companies have until July 6 to make final representations before Nandy makes a formal decision on an intervention.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Key challenges involve achieving long-horizon consistency, developing robust representations, and acquiring crucial interactive data moats.
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Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.
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Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
With every passing year, as historical mysteries are solved, and documents and artifacts emerge from attics and museum archives, those representations become more accurate.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
For Nijhon, the first step toward better policy is centering more nuanced representations of motherhood, not the kind of fringe rage bait that is loudest online.
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Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Visio is designed to help users create flowcharts, organizational charts, process maps, floor plans, network diagrams, and other visual representations of complex information.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
In addition to studying race and gender demographics in the film industry, the report also examined on-camera representations of disability.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
The standouts, however, came in the form of hieroglyphic representations.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Key challenges involve achieving long-horizon consistency, developing robust representations, and acquiring crucial interactive data moats.
—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.
—
Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
With every passing year, as historical mysteries are solved, and documents and artifacts emerge from attics and museum archives, those representations become more accurate.
—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
For Nijhon, the first step toward better policy is centering more nuanced representations of motherhood, not the kind of fringe rage bait that is loudest online.
—
Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Visio is designed to help users create flowcharts, organizational charts, process maps, floor plans, network diagrams, and other visual representations of complex information.
—
Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
In addition to studying race and gender demographics in the film industry, the report also examined on-camera representations of disability.
—
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
The standouts, however, came in the form of hieroglyphic representations.
—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for representations
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Other pictures on unofficial Telegram channels showed residents crowding into underground stations.
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Ranging from the film pioneer Georges Méliès all the way through 2024’s Anora, Thomson’s survey covers silent pictures, the talkies, the studio era, the New Hollywood, and the age of streaming.
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My favorite depictions of this city know its real history is too cuckoo to capture sincerely; straight reenactments make the production of 35mm masterpieces look as piddly as Shrinky Dinks.
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The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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The women’s portraits did not contain SynthID watermarks, but an AI detection tool flagged them as containing synthetic elements.
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Many museums around the world, including the Met, the Getty, and the Musée d’Orsay, own examples of his genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits.
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The developers will next prepare construction drawings and take other steps in anticipation of breaking ground in about two years.
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Schematics, facility maps, aerial photographs, engineering drawings, cutaway illustrations, and previously unfamiliar archival images reveal the extraordinary complexity of the undertaking.
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Ukraine has carried out major drone strikes on Russia’s two largest cities, embarrassing the Kremlin with images of black plumes of smoke that circulated widely online, despite regulations restricting their publication.
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Second, brighter satellites also create streaks in telescope images that mar observations.
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The evidence included surveillance video of Anthony fleeing the bleachers after the stabbing, body camera footage of his confession during arrest and photographs of the knife used.
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The genteel decor takes its cues from the quintas (farms) of local wine grandees, and each room features photographs and accessories contributed by a different Portuguese winemaker.
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“Representations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/representations. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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