as in depiction
a visual design intended to look like someone or something
The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.
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Recent Examples of representation
Actor, writer and playwright Hamish Linklater has signed with Gersh for representation.
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Katcy Stephan, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
Most of these investigations are tied to universities' partnerships with The Ph.D. Project, a nonprofit aimed at increasing minority representation in business academia.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
At the end of the day, tennis continues to face ongoing questions about diversity, representation, and access, and products like the Coco Delray offer a concrete contribution.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Mar. 2025
This year’s index ranks countries based on ten measures, including pay, education, parental leave, and representation in leadership roles.
—Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Katcy Stephan, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
Most of these investigations are tied to universities' partnerships with The Ph.D. Project, a nonprofit aimed at increasing minority representation in business academia.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
At the end of the day, tennis continues to face ongoing questions about diversity, representation, and access, and products like the Coco Delray offer a concrete contribution.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Mar. 2025
This year’s index ranks countries based on ten measures, including pay, education, parental leave, and representation in leadership roles.
—Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for representation
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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 feeling of the photographer’s vivid images were brought to life by a mix of smoky Port Ellen and sunny Clynelish.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
18 Mar. 2025
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One of the most enduring images in F*cktoys is when AP and Danni ride through town on their motorbike, their increasingly disheveled appearances marking the passage of time and the difficulty of their journey.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 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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Related Articles The film is the portrait of a lady who’s living a good life.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state.—
Don Sweeney,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Mar. 2025
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Powerball drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
9 Mar. 2025
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In Room 15, for example, Matisse’s Red Madras Headdress (1907) is flanked by (among other things) a pair of watery landscapes, a pair of fans, a pair of soup ladles, and a pair of pictures, each showing a woman and a dog (one of them from the hand of William Glackens’s daughter, age 9).—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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Just a few months removed from the Eaton and Palisades fires, Dodgers fans taking pictures and posting them on social media will, in many cases, be providing free publicity to Phillips 66.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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But along with the angry calls and Facebook messages, Vito’s has been praised and thanked for hanging the illustration.—
Lorena O'Neil,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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The other medieval link comes from the ‘allegorical’ aspect of the jewelry, as the illustrations in the pieces tell a story across the entire collection.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The book, which has been published by Rizzoli New York and will be released in April, is a collection of photographs by Israeli photographer Dudi Hasson.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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In the weeks leading up to Victoria Goodwin's arrest, the couple shared loving photographs of each other on social media.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Representation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/representation. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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