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illustration

[il-uh-strey-shuhn] / ˌɪl əˈstreɪ ʃən /




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Here’s an extremely simplistic illustration to see how the rent-and-invest versus buy numbers could play out today, using a calculator provided by Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi: A 35-year-old buys a starter home.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

In an illustration of the scale of destruction, Chinese state media said road access to hard-hit Gyirong Port in Tibet had only finally been restored on Wednesday after "days of round-the-clock repair work".

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

In this illustration, colored areas identify frontoparietal regions that track uncertainty as participants encounter changes in associations they had previously learned.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Squint, and it looks like an Art Deco anatomical illustration of our intestinal piping.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The illustration of the child asleep in his bed beneath the stars faces outward, but it is difficult to tell if the child’s dreams are peaceful or restless.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

And Arion does use computers to facilitate typesetting, as well as to print some illustrations.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

“Artists who illustrate stories that are already written, and most of those stories are myths — they’re not real — but the illustrations make them real.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Ironically, the very thing that Mark felt he needed to fulfill his dream – a large, admiring audience for his illustrations – began to feel like a prison.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

His illustrations are seen across the charity's nature reserves.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

She riffled through it, turning each sheet first one way, then another, expecting illustrations, but all she saw were patterns, line after line like ribbons of black lace.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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