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illustration

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




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You also must choose the size of the illustration and its resolution—in other words, how crisp and detailed it looks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

The AI illustration has pulled liberally from all three trilogies, placing the adult faces of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on the children.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

The success of optogenetics is an illustration of the importance of continuing to ask questions simply to understand the world around us because it’s impossible to predict where knowledge will take us.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

It was a rare moment of precision in front of goal, another illustration that despite their issues in scoring goals, Scotland have a promising array of strikers these days.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Perhaps the most graphic illustration of the singular status that Washington enjoyed was the decision of the Constitutional Convention to deposit the minutes of its secret deliberations with him for safekeeping.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Axel Scheffler, whose illustrations have captivated children since 1999, said he wanted AI companies to stop using artists' work without permission.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The firms to varying degrees are playing with serifs and colors, illustrations and photography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

They looked like tiny illustrations of fish pulled from the label of a particularly fancy tin of sardines, with hooks attached.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Others—depicting grinning clowns, crying women and morphing objects and creatures, including human figures potted like plants—recall children’s drawings and John Tenniel’s illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Grandma had stitched illustrations of my palm print into the dashiki, personalizing it to me.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer


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