mental picture
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Almost everyone with a stock or bond portfolio has a different mental picture of what they want to accomplish with their investments, if not how to get there.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025
Patriot’s players embraced their coaches, and they captured a mental picture of the scoreboard: a 47-39 edge in their favor, the final exorcism of last year’s loss.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2023
“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022
"It feels like you're living in Alcatraz. I go outside just to get a mental picture of what outside is."
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
It was the classic kind, the sort of spinning wheel most people imagined if they needed to form a mental picture of one.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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