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represent

[rep-ri-zent] / ˌrɛp rɪˈzɛnt /




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"These numbers represent children whose parents cannot afford nutritious food and families whose ability to cope has been worn down by years of conflict, economic hardship, drought and other shocks."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Altogether, they represent the historical forces that shape social concepts like Blackness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he had told Levine that the "despicable behaviour of the perpetrators of this attack does not represent the citizens or the values of the State of Israel".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

SpaceX shares represent roughly 10% of the University of North Carolina system endowment, for example, and it gained 37.8% for the fiscal year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

There is no way to know if the artists were trying to accurately represent an enslaved man in the background of a painting of the great man Washington.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Even though $1.5 trillion is an eyewatering number, it represents less than 5% of GDP, which isn’t a staggering sum for a period of high geopolitical tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The achievement, made by an international research team that includes scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, represents a major advance in precision cosmology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Horvath, who represents large portions of the Westside and Valley, plans to discuss her endorsement during an appearance with Raman on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The PCS union, which represents civil servants, said that while not all these cases would ultimately be affected by the two-year tax rule, there were "serious questions" over how long they would remain unresolved.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

He soon began to see systemic issues represented in his pictures — such as the ways Black people are expected to conform to white standards of beauty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Samantha Thompson, who represented Armstrong and Spofforth, a businesswoman from the Chester area, said the pair "apologise to the claimant for the serious harm to his reputation and his distress".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

These problems compound when a model is working in a language that is less represented in A.I. training data.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mrs. Peltola is the state’s best-known Democrat—having represented Alaska in the House from 2022 to 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Fifty cases represented about 10 percent of all active TB cases in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

According to the crowdsourced website RobotaxiTracker, 187 Cybercabs are active in Austin, representing half of Tesla’s fleet in the city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Advocate depute, Alex Prentice KC, representing the prosecution, said discussions over the case had been going on "for a long time".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Haines entered parliament as an independent lawmaker in 2019, representing the sprawling seat of Indi.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

A lawyer representing Alfozan, asked for “everyone to withhold judgment until full facts become known.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

“And I hate these shoes! And this miserable dress! I don’t care if it’s Eyllwe silk and I’m supposed to be representing my kingdom—the material’s been itching me ever since I put it on!”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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