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But it’s also one that, as Ocasio-Cortez’s behind-the-scenes videos depict, is expensive, uncomfortable, and painful to pursue.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
The Venus figurines crafted in Stone Age Europe depict women with enormous bellies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
These videos depict a fun-loving land that welcomes foreigners and embraces friends at 250 years old despite all the advertised assaults on its social fabric.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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
Stricken, he took in the pages on the wall, their cryptic lines drawn to depict oscillations in the voice, cries and dips lost to both of us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Warner Bros.’ probable apprehension over how the film depicts corporations like its own is only one layer of this big, genetically modified cartoon onion.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
As she joins a world of privileged rock devotees, Caicedo carefully depicts the duality of this elite Latin American world that meshes local and imported culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“This is Me” also depicts her mother, former soap actress Lesley Vogel, as demanding her daughter’s absolute best at every step in her career and leaving her with no alternative path.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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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Fernando Jauregui Ochoa had carefully depicted himself on social media as a trustworthy and successful Central California food truck builder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I think the Dechert report depicted the facts, as they found them, as accurately as they could,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
"We posted a video to our channels that ultimately depicted actions that are not aligned with our values as a brand," Good Good said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She’s extremely interested in the ways problematic movies can be reclaimed by the real-life minority figures depicted in them, and what can be gleaned from studying these films’ merits.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was titled Despierta Boricua and depicted a Taino Indian tied to a New York City fire hydrant.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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On her way out, Nanna pocketed a mosaic tile depicting the shape-shifting Greek sea god Proteus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A cartoonish monument depicting a certain oafish world leader dominates the intersection outside.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
Above the entrance was a carving depicting Atlas with a globe of the world atop his shoulders—hence the theatre's name, the Globe.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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