How to Use big picture in a Sentence
big picture
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Financial clients need advisors who can see the big picture.
— Andre Pennington, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 -
This study helps add to the big picture of how animals have evolved and adapted to their surroundings over time.
— Sara Harrison, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020 -
In the big picture, the amount of wind and solar deployed this year will need to be replicated in coming years.
— Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020 -
Turn your focus to solving the big picture and feeling a sense of accomplishment.
— Kristen Rogers, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020 -
But in the big picture, sharing the workload has been good for Conner, who notched his third-straight game with a touchdown.
— Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2020 -
But everything can’t always be about the big picture with Miami.
— Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2020 -
But her mantra inspires her to step away from the big picture—a major to-do list, for example, or a hardcore workout—and look at a task bit by bit.
— Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020 -
The big picture is Stefanski and his coaching staff don’t have the emotional swings as found in some past seasons.
— Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2020 -
But take a deep breath, zoom out from your Twitter and Facebook feeds or your TV screen, and look at the big picture.
— Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020 -
Judge Barrett managed to keep the focus on what mattered—record, philosophy, the big picture.
— Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020 -
The big picture: America is in the middle of a pandemic, and Covid-19 cases are rising again.
— Julia Horowitz, CNN, 4 Nov. 2020 -
And on Tuesday, Nagy acknowledged the challenge in still seeing the big picture while assessing the offense’s week-to-week results.
— Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020 -
Correa’s blast was monumental, but from an offensive standpoint, the Astros’ big picture remains badly out of focus.
— Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 4 Oct. 2020 -
Naturally, picking only 50 fossils to represent the big picture of dinosaur science required great care.
— Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024 -
To Crouch, who always saw the big picture, jazz was just the veneer for what the attacks were really about: the enormous impact of Black culture on American life.
— Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2020 -
Books The back-and-forth over ‘The Blind Side’ misses the big picture.
— Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023 -
And 1,500 years ago is not that long ago in the big picture.
— Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 15 June 2022 -
The best way to do that is to look at the big picture and not sweat the small stuff.
— Annie Lane, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023 -
The key, at least for me, was to ignore the big picture.
— Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021 -
Step back and look at the big picture when you get caught in the small stuff.
— Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 -
Make an effort to step back and take in the big picture!
— Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023 -
On top of that, what the big picture looks like, so we don’t get caught up in the small things.
— Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022 -
In the big picture, what the Cavs need is lottery night luck.
— Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Looking at the big picture, that might be a smart move.
— Telis Demos, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Dear Wanting: The best way to move ahead is to take a step back -- and look at the big picture.
— cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022 -
Sarkisian tried to shift the breakdowns to the big picture.
— Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2021 -
That way, only Leigh (and his crew) can see the big picture.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 May 2022 -
The big picture is to help users to save in dollars but spend in the Sudanese pound.
— Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022 -
Artists try to apprehend the big picture quickly and, at the same time, get to the heart of it.
— Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022 -
In this case, the person who wrote the story failed to look at the big picture – or in this case the graph.
— Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 May 2022
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