depict
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Villanueva, on the other hand, has sought to depict L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The stamps depict familiar scenes of Mary and Joseph travelling, baby Jesus, an angel, the shepherds and the Three Wise Men.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
RSI readings above 70 are believed to depict overbought conditions, which is a technical term that suggests buyers need some time to digest what they just accomplished.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
So, too, are the movies that depict journalism’s procedures and how arduous and exhausting they are.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The city of Hampton changed its official seal to depict a crab holding a Mercury capsule in its claw, adopting the motto E Praeteritis Futura: Out of the past, the future.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The new volume depicts a period of painful accounting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Apple’s new holiday ad depicts a boy whose family reignites his repressed creativity with the gift of a MacBook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Villanueva, on the other hand, depicts the department’s Luna era as a sweeping failure that has left morale low, deputy jobs unfilled and criminals unpunished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Piper Sandler’s Johnson also highlighted that the index’s chart depicts that those who bought tech stocks after the Nasdaq’s breakout to the late-September and early-October record highs got duped.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
It depicts the American Revolutionas a liberation movement, a clean break not just from English domination but also from the historic corruptions of European monarchy and aristocracy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The “corruption” depicted in “Network” is revealed in UBS’s response to Beale’s downfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The challenge, as depicted in the film, is twofold for Valencia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
They also reinforce the idea that Europe's ancient landscapes were generally brighter, more open, and more varied than the dense primeval forests often depicted in popular imagination.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
After Wood’s death at age 50 in 1942, Graham took up the fight, aiming to persuade people that her brother had depicted her as a spinster daughter still living at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
That is, an abstract word was written with the sign for another word pronounced similarly but with a different meaning that could be readily depicted.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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When RSI drops below 30, it’s seen as depicting an oversold condition, which just means the stock has suffered a historically extreme decline.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Holocaust Memorial Museum, receives an album of photographs that she and her co-workers soon recognize as depicting Nazis who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Huge posters depicting Saint Toribio and Leo XIV adorn the walls of the town hall and the main church, where a piece of the saint's tibia is housed as a relic.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Among the artifacts recovered from the site is an unusual ceramic vessel depicting a seated Peruvian hairless dog with humanlike features.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
But it is the image of Vincent’s relationship with Theo, the piece of art depicting the most important relationship in Vincent's life.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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