silhouetted

verb

past tense of silhouette
as in traced
to draw or make apparent the outline of in the photograph the majestic mountain is strikingly silhouetted against the setting sun

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Recent Examples of silhouetted People are silhouetted against the setting sun in Berlin on June 19, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 30 July 2026 When hunting, the dragonflies approached their prey from below, so prey was often viewed silhouetted against the sky. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026 Look out for delicate, wispy cloud formations that shine silver and blue in the twilight, while other clouds near the horizon appear dark and silhouetted in the evening sky. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2026 There was light back there, and then all these trees were silhouetted. — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026 The original house was set back and silhouetted against the backdrop of trees. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 The Endless Summer design, featuring a surfer silhouetted against an orange-yellow sunset, is Florida's top-selling specialty plate, with 145,063 registrations. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026 The astronauts will also look for dust lofted off the moon’s surface and silhouetted against the faint coronal light. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026 Whatever is placed on the paper as it is exposed—a body, a flower—is silhouetted. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silhouetted
  1. traced
  2. sketched
  3. outlined
  4. defined
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  • Hunt and her team eventually traced the genetic changes to a new cleaning method eroding the polycarbonate cages that housed the animals.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Decisions can be traced, controls documented and outcomes explained.
    — Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of traced
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  • Rota’s gorgeous score swells sweetly as this affair is sketched, but Mario — older and wiser, to quote the Rodgers and Hammerstein song — has his doubts about a man who seems to him like a cad.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Porter sketched Trotsky holding forth at a conference table, proselytizing to the American bureaucrats.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of sketched
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  • Tim Cook outlined in the earnings call that memory prices will continue to rise beyond September and that could increasingly impact Apple’s business, although existing inventory and savings on non-memory components should provide some relief.
    — Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Commercial focus remains Deep Fission has also outlined a different strategy from many experimental reactor programs.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of outlined
Verb
  • Upheaval and volatility have defined the 13-year post-Sir Alex Ferguson era at Old Trafford, with United lurching from one coach and philosophy to the next.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The most successful acquisitions are rarely defined solely by valuation.
    — Amit Jain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of defined

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