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 Successive rounds give the words increasingly rich representations of themselves. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that can reproduce their configurations and behavior. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026 The Sydney emblem design contained representations of famous landmarks including the Sydney Opera House, the city's famous harbor and beaches, as well as boomerangs, sun and rocks. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026 Both encode information in high-dimensional vectors, transform those representations using matrices and tensors and convert internal states into probable outputs. — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 His second grid made clever work of visual representations of typefaces. — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2026 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

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Noun

Al Hassan remembers showing a group of visitors TAMM’s feature for taking pictures and reporting potholes.

— Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
The men appear to have developed a close relationship and often share pictures together on their socials, including posing together at the 2021 Los Angeles premiere of the Peter Jackson’s Beatles miniseries Get Back (see above).

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Much of what’s in the movie is taken straight from Huxley, who despite the novelistic nature of his endeavor often presents real evidence alongside his creative depictions of events.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Chen initially resisted the rainbow-like chromatic aberration familiar from other screen depictions of superpowers.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of depictions

Noun

Inspired by archival photographs of alpine pioneer and early Moncler collaborator Lionel Terray, each is captured in bold portraits wearing reimagined versions of signature Moncler outerwear and accessories.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Then, Nourry sculpted their portraits using her free interpretations.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of portraits

Noun

Related Articles The exhibition is co-organized by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, the Met’s curator of European drawings and prints, and Blaise Ducos, who oversees Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Louvre.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Find here Gruau’s original gouaches and Hervé van der Straeten’s drawings.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of drawings

Noun

His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Two more search warrants were carried out for the TikTok account, and during an interview, deputies said the teen confessed to taking photos of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

Prosecutors allege Freire raped one of the women while she was incapacitated, took photographs of the unconscious roommates and shared the images with others.

— Alice Gainer, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Together, the two then traveled to Santorini, Antiparos, and Athens, making their way through the landscapes Susan had long admired in photographs.

— Jenn Sinrich, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of photographs

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