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consisting of or relating to pictures
that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa
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producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color
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Recent Examples of pictorial
Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The other side of this same coin is that the generative AI cannot display to the user a result in any pictorial way.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
And your pictorial really brings it home.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
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Adjective
Sixty years later, the 214 fells featured in the pictorial guides are now known as the Wainwrights, and walkers collect them like Coloradans collect fourteeners.
—Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The other side of this same coin is that the generative AI cannot display to the user a result in any pictorial way.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon, written by journalist and acting editor-in-chief of Wallpaper magazine, Bill Prince, and published by Assouline, is the first book on the famous AP model in a decade (the last book, mostly a pictorial, was written by Martin K. Wehrli and Heinz Heimann in 2012).
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
And your pictorial really brings it home.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
Noun
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Kris Knoblauch has this edition of the Oilers playing strong positional hockey and getting great results.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was celebrated at the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Joy Awards in Riyadh over the weekend, with Anthony Hopkins presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Award on stage.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Jack Schnedler,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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In addition to vinyl, which is now a No. 1 bestseller on the retailer, Amazon’s lineup includes crewneck sweatshirts, graphic tees, CDs, cassettes, and posters featuring the abstract illustration.—
Anna Tingley,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The bold and vivid blue may be the most noticeable change to shoppers.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
17 Jan. 2025
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Paying homage to the rich ecosystem, each chair back tells a story through vivid local wildlife photography.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s DoE could also replace the fact sheet with one that offers a very different take.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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There’s even a public Google sheet being passed around that lists more than 900 Los Angeles-area therapists who are offering pro bono therapy to process the trauma of the L.A. wildfires.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Throughout much of the 1960s, MacGraw spent years working at Harper's Bazaar magazine as a photographic assistant and, later, at Vogue as model and stylist.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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And because the find predated the advent of digital cameras and drones, limited photographic evidence remains for paleontologists to study further.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Lynch, who has died just a few days shy of his 79th birthday, was so extraordinary that fairly early in his career, his last name became the foundation of a descriptive adjective.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Bleak would be a nice descriptive word to use when considering that 11% are disqualified as overweight, 8% for drug abuse and 4% due to mental health issues.—
Lonnie Groot,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Jan. 2025
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Prince Harry reaches a settlement with Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids.—
Hunter Clauss,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Prince Harry has settled his historic case against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This strategy taps into several key features that drive online shopping behaviors: engaging visual content, real-time interaction and immediacy.—
Ismael El Qudsi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The visual, co-directed by OK Go’s Damian Kulash and filmmaker Chris Buongiorno, uses 64 mobile phones to create a mosaic of 64 different videos, which, when combined, seamlessly create one giant image.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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