as in photo
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera
a coworker handed around some vacation pics
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as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
you can take the pike all the way to the city
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Recent Examples of pic
Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
The fuzzy pics show the Moscow native in a messy updo and all black sweatsuit, wearing a medical boot.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Knox and Shirley visit the forge, where some of his friends reveal a small arsenal of homemade pikes, spears, clubs, and armored chest protectors.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Noun
The pic marks Hancock’s debut feature screenplay, as well as his first turn at directing.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
The fuzzy pics show the Moscow native in a messy updo and all black sweatsuit, wearing a medical boot.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
When the Revolution broke out, the mob marched wax heads through Paris on pikes.
—Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Knox and Shirley visit the forge, where some of his friends reveal a small arsenal of homemade pikes, spears, clubs, and armored chest protectors.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
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Verb
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.—
Paula Schleis,
cincinnati.com,
2 May 2020
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.—
Erik Heinrich,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 May 2018
Verb
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Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.—
CNN,
CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
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Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.—
Lily Katzman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2020
Verb
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As the only child of Whitney and Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina was thrust into the spotlight from a young age, experiencing a life full of both triumphs and struggles.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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He was thrust into the starting role in Week 6 of the 2024 season in a 41-21 loss to the Texans.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
28 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The front seats are immaculate with dozens of baseball-mitt-like brown leather panels perforated for heating and cooling.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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And then also reducing the amount of surface coverage on the band itself by also removing and perforating.—
Allen Farmelo,
Robb Report,
6 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.—
Caitlin Kelley,
Billboard,
24 Mar. 2019
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Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.—
Katherine J. Igoe,
Marie Claire,
2 Aug. 2019
Verb
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In another case, the NYPD arrested a man accused of knifing two strangers from behind within the subway system.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Less than 24 hours earlier, Banks allegedly knifed a 31-year-old man aboard an uptown No. 2 train at the 14th St. station in the West Village.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Our agricultural and food safety systems are riddled with loopholes that have allowed this virus to spread.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
7 Feb. 2025
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Those next two years there, we just were riddled with injuries.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
4 Feb. 2025
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Alessia was pricked with five IVs, and none of them worked.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Palisades system soon became like a hose pricked a thousand times, its flow severely weakened.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Pic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pic. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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