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depict

Definition for depict

verb as in describe, render in drawing or writing

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With the passage of centuries, the Eurocentric accounts that depicted Cortés as a heroic “white savior” and Moctezuma as a cowardly heathen have been eclipsed.

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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” brilliantly depicts the wearying search for sanctuary that so many of us go through in our adult lives.

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Springsteen’s darkest era spurred the making of his “Nebraska” album, a period of emotional and creative strife depicted in the movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” opening this weekend.

Dating apps are frequently derided as fruitless exercises in ego-demolition, but the encounters and relationships depicted here make the anonymity and distance apps provide seem like a warm, protective blanket.

It was a song she wrote in a matter of hours to depict her own mindset change.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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