as in graphic
producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
vivid language that made the scene come alive in my mind
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Recent Examples of vivid
The meteors can appear anywhere in the night sky, with some leaving vivid trails in their wake, NASA said.
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Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
For example, the familiar Mario red is much more vivid on the Switch OLED than on the original Switch.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
The powdered packets taste similar, if not a bit stronger, with vivid hues from artificial food coloring.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The discussion quickly revealed a vivid tapestry of how childfree adults navigate life after hours, with activities ranging from quiet nights streaming favorite shows to workout sessions, team sports, and reconnecting over dinners with friends.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
For example, the familiar Mario red is much more vivid on the Switch OLED than on the original Switch.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
The powdered packets taste similar, if not a bit stronger, with vivid hues from artificial food coloring.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The discussion quickly revealed a vivid tapestry of how childfree adults navigate life after hours, with activities ranging from quiet nights streaming favorite shows to workout sessions, team sports, and reconnecting over dinners with friends.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vivid
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Part of this surge is just practical, said Elizabeth Goodspeed, a graphic designer and writer.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Apr. 2025
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This new method adds to the more qualitative, descriptive criteria many researchers, including our team, use to make mark identifications.—
Briana Pobiner,
The Conversation,
11 Apr. 2025
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The platform enables non-experts to specify a robot’s operational and structural parameters using simple descriptive input.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Apr. 2025
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Flowers, notes, candles, and other items were placed neatly in two rows down a sidewalk among the oak trees and Spanish moss, a defining beauty mark on FSU's picturesque campus.—
Kati Weis,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2025
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Your proposal doesn’t have to be on a hot air balloon in Paris or a picturesque beach in the Maldives—unless your person has explicitly expressed that preference and that fits your budget.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Vogue,
20 Apr. 2025
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The models are also trained to follow instructions more literally, which requires careful and specific prompting but allows for greater control over the output.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Hilbert mentioned some specific subgoals, however, and researchers have since refined his vision into concrete steps toward its solution.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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The next steps include speeding up the AI's processing, making the output voice more expressive and exploring ways to incorporate tone, pitch and loudness variations into the synthesized speech.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Vivid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vivid. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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