as in depiction
a vivid representation in words of someone or something
his novel presents a moving portrayal of a woman searching for personal fulfillment and happiness
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Recent Examples of portrayal
And the government’s portrayal of the situation was quaint, if not fanciful.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Henry and Eckhart advanced clashing portrayals of the two meeting for a drink in 2014 at a New York hotel.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
Parasite’s portrayal of these upstairs-downstairs dynamics is even more overt; the members of the struggling Kim household, who live in a basement-level apartment and juggle odd jobs, alight on a crafty employment scheme after encountering an ultra-wealthy family.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Rather, this sensible, sensitive, and sometimes quite beautiful portrayal of modern animal husbandry wants to reveal the secretive process of how meat lands on your plate.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Henry and Eckhart advanced clashing portrayals of the two meeting for a drink in 2014 at a New York hotel.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
Parasite’s portrayal of these upstairs-downstairs dynamics is even more overt; the members of the struggling Kim household, who live in a basement-level apartment and juggle odd jobs, alight on a crafty employment scheme after encountering an ultra-wealthy family.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Rather, this sensible, sensitive, and sometimes quite beautiful portrayal of modern animal husbandry wants to reveal the secretive process of how meat lands on your plate.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portrayal
Noun
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In this twilight zone, extreme closeups of Maddie and Frank’s terrified eyes, the sudden depiction of the road in soft focus, and the forest’s AI-like rendering are downright disorienting.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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This depiction of Black life—free of stereotypes and full of dignity—was groundbreaking at a time when such representations were rare.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
12 Mar. 2025
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The couple also publishes a magazine that includes the trail map and site descriptions.—
Michele Herrmann,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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There was also a successful touchdown on this morning's Starlink launch, the 18th to date for this particular Falcon 9 booster, according to a SpaceX mission description.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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He's got a little sidekick over there named Mark Paoletta who is one of the people in the portrait with Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo and Clarence Thomas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Enter the boardroom and there is a framed portrait of Arend on the left-hand wall.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Zara and Eugenie, who turns 35 later this month, sported coordinating outfits with burgundy hues for the fashionable day out and posed together for a picture.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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To use the new system, fans use the app to take a picture of their face, which is converted into a code, which is then associated with the fan’s account and the image is deleted.—
Josh Bruni,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Portrayal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portrayal. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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