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Longer-range models depict widely differing possibilities for the last week of August and the first week of September, so confidence in the outlook is low.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
On Instagram, some videos depict people getting approached in malls and grocery stores and on college campuses and sidewalks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Chapters in the third person depict the ways that the dog’s uneventful daily life of feedings and naps has been transformed by sickness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Flag patterns that follow a significant trend depict a short-term consolidation of that trend, and are often resolved in the same direction of the trend that followed them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
These mathematician-artists perfected the technique of perspective and could soon depict arbitrary objects in three dimensions.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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One depicts a bison, while the other is commonly described as a mask.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
He took inspiration from paintings, including Alexandre Cabanel’s 1847 work “The Fallen Angel,” which depicts the devil after his fall from heaven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
One depicts the Buddha scrolling on a smart phone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
It depicts a sharp-toothed, hat- wearing figure who faces the viewer frontally and holds a long stick or rod vertically in each hand.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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“Investigators subsequently determined that the male located in Kahana was the same individual depicted in the surveillance footage,” the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Separately, UK actor Hannah Waddingham is depicted next to her "NHS surgeon beau", who the paper says has got a "Hollywood makeover".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Video from the podcast showed Paxton seated in front of a fireplace and mantle that were nearly identical to those depicted in the home’s online real estate listing.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
One, a color film, depicted the People’s Republic of China in celebration of its Fourteenth Anniversary.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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If only “HOTD” had put as much effort into honing its characters’ internal battles as it did depicting bloody conflicts across Westeros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The latest costs relate to a mural depicting a judge in a wig battering a protester with his gavel, which appeared on the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 8 September 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
There would be a medal and a sculpture depicting hands reaching out toward a globe—a miniature replica of a piece that stands in front of the U.N. offices in Geneva.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In 2023, an AI image depicting an explosion at the Pentagon briefly rattled the markets.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Ms. Keaton, do you think Shakespeare demonized dark men by depicting Caliban in that way? A friend of mine thinks so.”
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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