as in graphics
something that visually explains or decorates a text
the strong visuals in the beginning biology book compensate somewhat for the weak text
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Recent Examples of visuals
The rapper began teasing the 11-song project with some suitably creepy videos and visuals on social media just a few hours before the LP’s midnight release.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
The Criterion Channel's Body Horror collection features macabre stories involving a woman and her tentacled creature lover (Possession), a woman self-reproducing odd children through rage (The Brood), and more disturbing visuals that will keep you up all night.
—Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Repicturing Rural, a new report from Getty Images and Land O’ Lakes, reveals that despite one in five of Americans living on rural land, just 5% of popular visuals licensed from Getty Images are set in rural places, and only 16% of rural images include people.
—William Jones, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
With disturbing visuals, wild kills and a seriously creepy synth soundtrack, A Nightmare on Elm Street changed the slasher genre forever when it was released in 1984.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Blessedly, the album visuals are striking not in their maximalism, but their quieter reverie.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Parents can use their Family Plan settings to filter explicit lyrics, block certain artists or songs and hide videos or looping visuals called Canvas.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
In the next 18 months, expect to see radically new ways of working with AI agents — natural interfaces across voice, text, visuals, or gesture.
—Swami Chandrasekaran, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
The game will also run 4K visuals while retaining the core gameplay from the original, according to Microsoft.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
The Criterion Channel's Body Horror collection features macabre stories involving a woman and her tentacled creature lover (Possession), a woman self-reproducing odd children through rage (The Brood), and more disturbing visuals that will keep you up all night.
—Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Repicturing Rural, a new report from Getty Images and Land O’ Lakes, reveals that despite one in five of Americans living on rural land, just 5% of popular visuals licensed from Getty Images are set in rural places, and only 16% of rural images include people.
—William Jones, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
With disturbing visuals, wild kills and a seriously creepy synth soundtrack, A Nightmare on Elm Street changed the slasher genre forever when it was released in 1984.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Blessedly, the album visuals are striking not in their maximalism, but their quieter reverie.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Parents can use their Family Plan settings to filter explicit lyrics, block certain artists or songs and hide videos or looping visuals called Canvas.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
In the next 18 months, expect to see radically new ways of working with AI agents — natural interfaces across voice, text, visuals, or gesture.
—Swami Chandrasekaran, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
The game will also run 4K visuals while retaining the core gameplay from the original, according to Microsoft.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visuals
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The partnership represents a significant win for Intel, which years ago underestimated how graphics processors would come to dominate AI computing—a domain where Nvidia now leads.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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How to get tickets to the new shows Chesney, who was the first country artist to play the Sphere, plans to tweak the show from his first round with new songs and graphics.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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AIs routinely struggle with diagrams, though, so this test is almost always a measure of which technology does the least bad job, and ChatGPT takes that honor here.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
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Physically, these explorations can be seen in Dennis’ use of drawings, diagrams and 3D models, sometimes incorporating them with poetry and language.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2025
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In one of the first illustrations of Christopher Robin and Pooh from the first book Milne published, the young boy is sporting his signature bowl cut, but Pooh is not yet dressed in the red shirt that has become so familiar to children over the last 100 years.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
29 Oct. 2025
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The gang was featured in illustrations showing their method of travel to the city for the event — via hot air balloon — as well as spots on TODAY, Access Hollywood, NBC Nightly News for Kids promoting the contest.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
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But who are the actors who make these figures so frighteningly iconic?—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Reportedly, the company intends to reuse the fundamental robotic core — which houses the complex multimodal interaction and motion-control technology — to create a diverse range of new figures.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Visuals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visuals. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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