REPRESENTATIONS Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

representations

noun

plural of representation

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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 Additionally, founders frequently serve as the face of the company, making representations to clients, investors and partners. — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Çayoğlu mentions his amazement at meeting fans in Italy and Argentina, representations of their work crossing borders. — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 7 July 2026 More Freedom 250 controversy Freedom 250 has been the focus of other controversy over funding transparency and religious representations. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 July 2026 Both companies have until July 6 to make final representations before Nandy makes a formal decision on an intervention. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 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

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Noun

Recently released pictures show his coffin next arriving in Karbala, surrounded by masses of people.

— Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026
Reporters staked out the property and snapped pictures of arrivals.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

His wartime propaganda cartoons, for example, included stereotypical and racist depictions of Japanese people.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Stretching nearly 70 meters, the embroidery contains more than 620 people and 737 animals across 58 scenes, including striking depictions of battle and its aftermath.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 10 July 2026

Definition of depictions

Noun

Colorful embroidery decorated Bluemarble’s washed blue jeans, while printed portraits were seen on Undercover’s jeans and key chains dangled from Vetements’ jeans with unraveled hems.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
Monks and ordinary Tibetans are forced to replace portraits of previous Dalai Lamas and even traditional thangkas with portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of portraits

Noun

Two years later, the Institute for Studies in Latin American Art, also in New York, presented a selection of her drawings.

— News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2026
But although they were not shown a budget for the project or more finalized drawings for the arch at the meeting, the commissioners unanimously approved the arch.

— Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 July 2026

Definition of drawings

Noun

In photo images shared by the Parks and Rec Department, an outdoor trash barrel sits ringed by bags of refuse collected next to a playing field.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
TikTokers today may be a great distance from the church fathers, but their images still resonate – even, and perhaps especially, on the internet.

— Denva Gallant, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

Definition of images

Noun

As this July Fourth approached, FOUND on the Guadalupe River still had about 1,800 items awaiting reunification, about half of them photographs.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
For those who cannot visit in person, the virtual tour has the same information with photographs.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026

Definition of photographs

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