rebus
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The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
It reminds me of a surrealist painting, or a rebus puzzle.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2021
A rebus, a romance, a gothic thriller and a woozy comedy, “The Handmaiden” is finally and most significantly a liberation story.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
Today the rebus is a convention of the crossword.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2015
In San Antonio, Texas, the final contest was a fresh and very complicated rebus puzzle.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
I grew up doing crosswords, riddles and rebuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
Photograph: Universal Images Group/Getty Images In essence, Griffiths had to crack an elaborate Tudor code of rebuses, ciphers, heraldic motifs and symbolic flowers to discover who the man was.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2015
More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps I should compose some rebuses for the King.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
And the greatest pages of his autobiography, written with his brush, will be only so many childish rebuses if we forget what astounding pages of History and Argument were turned before him.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
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