depict
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What these ecstatic works signify—and whether they depict angels or demons, predators or prey, creators or destroyers—remains elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In this view, fiction should not only reflect present flaws but also depict people and societies worth becoming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
His drawings and paintings depict the world around him, as well as his former bosses at BT.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
While these facets might depict our tech-obsessed age, Mungiu writes them in a way that makes the Norwegians look silly, and the Gheorghius look like objectively good parents.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
In fact, while many US history books depict George Washington as a heroic Founding Father and a surveyor too, Indigenous peoples do not think of him that way.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Though she, too, is a brilliant musician, the novel depicts her primarily as “a prodigy in living.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The 70m-long Bayeux Tapestry depicts 58 scenes outlining the extraordinary events surrounding the Norman conquest of England, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in Britain.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
It depicts how rising borrowing costs can weigh more heavily on shares of smaller companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Copernicus Ocean State Report depicts profound changes across the world's seas, from record-breaking heatwaves in the Mediterranean and Black seas to shifts in marine ecosystems and increasingly acidic waters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Because the carving depicts a man instead of an event, the date is generally thought to be the dead man’s name.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Astronomers have long depicted distant exoplanets with smooth, circular outlines.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Welsh flag was taken down from the town hall for the filming, with Price saying Cowbridge would be depicted as a town in Herefordshire.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Of course “The Social Reckoning” arrives too late to feel revolutionary; it would be late even if it depicted something that happened last week.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
So did every AI video that depicted him as a Viking, crossing the Atlantic in a wooden longboat, ready to raid East Rutherford, New Jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Historians have subsequently pointed out to me that Europe’s fragmentation, China’s unity, and Europe’s and China’s relative strengths were all more complex than depicted in my account.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
"You've taken us for fools long enough," read a banner beneath a display depicting BFV officials using a magnet to pull a compass needle towards them.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
HHS’ headquarters was decked out for the event with red, white and blue lighting and posters depicting artificial food dye as a monster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The exhibition brings together original Giger artwork depicting the alien egg and an original facehugger from the 1979 film, the spidery parasite whose method of reproduction helped make “Alien” a landmark of body horror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Phonetically interpreted signs were also used to “spell out” longer words, as a series of pictures each depicting the sound of one syllable.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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