as in film
the art or business of making a movie
hoping for a career in pictures
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as in depicts
to present a picture of
the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence
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as in imagines
to form a mental picture of
could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs
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as in describes
to give a representation or account of in words
pictured the sailing ship in vivid language
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictures
Noun
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The film debuted at the 2025 Cannes International Film Festival.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025 -
In May 2025, IndieWire reported that Murphy was in talks to star opposite Daniel Craig in Damien Chazelle’s next film.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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And Paul depicts his own explicitly visionary encounters with a long-dead Jesus as equivalent to the earlier encounters reported by the apostles.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The painting in question, Portrait of a Gentleman, his Daughter and a Servant, depicts a father clad in a fashionable black suit with a pleated collar.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Misty imagines sitting on a toilet and using real toilet paper.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Tim, Victoria, and Piper The episode begins with an obnoxious fake-out where Tim imagines killing himself, before sending most of the Ratliffs, save Saxon, off to the monastery so Tim and Victoria can have a look around this place where their daughter intends to live for at least a year.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The term which gained traction in the 2010s, describes artists whose seemingly overnight success appears manufactured rather than earned.—
Carly Lewis-Oduntan,
refinery29.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Google’s post about this feature describes it as a way to help you tune hearing aids into audio broadcasts, but the technology has wider applications.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
13 Mar. 2025
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Here, Lee gets at the crux of his self-satire, as well as the grousing anti-capitalism of Kurosawa’s original movie, in which the protagonist has also let business cloud his moral judgment.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2025
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Basso successfully transitioned from child actor to adult thespian, first appearing in coming-of-age movies such as Super 8 and The Kings of Summer before going on to portray J.D. Vance in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy and one of the villains in horror movie The Strangers.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But the story never leaves us with a sense that anything is incomplete, as Shear eloquently portrays the ways that near-misses can still feel like cataclysmic life events.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
8 Mar. 2025
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The actress that portrays Vanessa, Lauren Buglioli, has been working steadily since the mid-2010s, with guest appearances on series like FBI and the Dynasty reboot (which also featured Goings), and films like Jessica Lange's The Great Lillian Hall and the horror anthology film Horror Noire.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Also getting a North American bow is The Girl Who Cried Pearls, the latest stop-motion animated short from the National Film Board of Canada filmmaking duo of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, Oscar nominees for their earlier film Madame Tutli-Putli.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Her films explore themes of identity, gender, and cultural displacement, frequently blurring the lines between documentary and fiction for a truly singular voice in the history of independent filmmaking.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
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Interestingly enough, the house also sees an uptick in attendance during the summer months; Kinney notes that people from Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati often work in a visit while in town to see their home baseball teams face off against the Cleveland Guardians.—
Annie Zaleski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Pictures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictures. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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