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[pik-cher] / ˈpɪk tʃər /








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The picture gets more complicated once the crude is refined.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

It was based on the profile picture of the couple’s shared Facebook account, but Walters had swapped out palm trees for three Christian crosses and the American flag rippling in the breeze.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

As Paul Klee, an abstract—sometimes narrative—artist, insisted: “A picture is not an illustration of an idea, but the idea itself.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Big picture: Americans are spending enough money to grease the economy, especially wealthier people who’ve enjoyed ever-rising stock prices.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

I can’t help but laugh at the picture in my head of a young Ford getting smacked on his butt by a mean old lady.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Before you came onstage last night, an announcer told the audience not to take pictures or videos.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

By analyzing samples from adults across a wide range of ages, the team created one of the most detailed pictures yet of how genome regulation shifts as the brain grows older.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

When OKX’s investigators examined the pictures linked to the suspicious OKX accounts, many appeared to have been taken at the same facility, with someone else holding the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Axel Scheffler said AI pictures are "a breach of copyright" and lose their charm when compared to the hand-drawn originals.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

I reached out and touched it, and the paper slid away under my fingers, the paper and the bits of colored pictures.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Noah Woods, who disappeared on Tuesday, is pictured on the front page of the Independent after police confirm a body was found near where the toddler vanished.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Obama sure has his charms, but he comes out of a different mold: the Harvard-educated lawyer who pictured himself in the Oval Office from an early age.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

He argued for an AI “for everyone” and pictured a future where the artificial intelligence tools his company was helping to create were integrated into the everyday functions of every single person on Earth.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2026

Within a decade she was “Gloria-Steinem-the-antiwar-gorgeous- bachelor girl who was pictured with Henry Kissinger in Time and Life…,” according to a breathless 1970 account in the Los Angeles Times.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

He’d been a little obsessed with animals back then, so first he’d pictured elephant seals waddling on top of official-looking papers.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Daily Telegraph calls the solar eclipse "the greatest show on Earth", picturing a crowd in Birmingham gazing at the phenomenon along with millions across the UK and Europe.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

But picturing your future self—and mentally “traveling back” to who you are now—has been shown to increase savings behavior, according to a 2024 study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

From MarketWatch Apr. 25, 2026

Stop picturing a standard vending machine with rotating coils and falling snacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

He squirmed on his mat, wishing uselessly that Headmaster hadn’t selected him, picturing the cub chased by a hungry crocodile, counting the minutes until the sun would finally rise.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins




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