depict
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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
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
Several chapters depict tortuous scenes from Gerry’s life as they play out in memory and on the page.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Other than that, this wasn’t the decisive victory that some depict it as.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
He later wrote about his experiences and commissioned artists to depict the scenes he described.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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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
It is the first time the artefact, which depicts events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest of England in 1066, has returned to the UK in more than 900 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Hay Wain sits on a 6ft-wide canvas and depicts a scene at Flatford with a horse and cart in the river and Willy Lott's Cottage on the bank.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
It is twice my height and four times my width and depicts an attractive woman with watery gray eyes and spectacles—Jeanine.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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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
Both had an underlying conservation message but drew viewers in with the colorful and chaotic worlds they depicted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The distributor explained that the character depicted was a "living mummy" who was returned to her parents as a young adult, many years after having been kidnapped as a child.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In some caves where enlightened paradise is depicted, it’s utopic: singers and dancers prancing in revelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Red icons -- depicting Russian drones -- were dotted across the map and disappeared as they were downed by Ukraine's air force.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
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’s plenty of Archer to go around,” read one supporter’s sign, depicting a car, bus and a bicycle wheel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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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