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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Republicans hold the most Senate seats Can't see our graphics?—
George Petras,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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On Monday, OpenAI inked a deal to buy $38 billion worth of compute from Amazon and will immediately start to access Nvidia’s graphics processing units.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Work with over 250,000 shapes, link diagrams to live data from Excel or Microsoft Entra ID, and generate org charts automatically.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
2 Nov. 2025
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These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Each page features full-color illustrations and only a few lines of text, making Xolo an excellent pick for reluctant readers, graphic novel lovers, and kids who’ve just begun to find their way into longer stories.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The children's book is co-authored by Thompson and Bryan Tucker, with illustrations by Tony Neal.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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The victories are seen by many analysts and political figures as a signal that Democrats have regained momentum after losses in the 2024 election cycle—while some Republican voices warn of growing disconnection from core voters.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Turnout figures for the Sacramento region show the Yes on 50 campaign benefitted from low voter turnout compared to other recent elections.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Visuals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visuals. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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