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pictorial

[pik-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-ee-uhl] / pɪkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr i əl /


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They later became popular with holidaymakers after designs changed and pictorial postcards were introduced.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

We leave the show realizing that Viollet-le-Duc was one of the world’s great pictorial thinkers, whose graphic curiosity recognized no boundaries between geology, anatomy and architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Each is staffed by one employee who follows pictorial instructions on several overhead screens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

Champollion resisted the idea of hieroglyphs as pictorial metaphors.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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