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representation

[rep-ri-zen-tey-shuhn, -zuhn-] / ˌrɛp rɪ zɛnˈteɪ ʃən, -zən- /




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“They’re so terrified,” said Yalda T. Uhls, founder and CEO of the Center for Scholars and Storytellers, a nonprofit research group focused on youth representation in media.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The French foreign ministry said they were monitoring how the pair were being treated, as well as their access to legal representation.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

It evaluates incoming signals, including information that may be incomplete or uncertain, combines them into a more useful overall representation, and then helps direct other brain regions toward an appropriate response.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

“It’s protecting our water, our EMS, our roads. Also protecting our county by making sure that our county has adequate legal representation when sitting across the table and negotiating with companies like SpaceX.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In doing so, they say, Wright violated federal law, which bars individuals from making materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations to Congress.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The American institution of the sleepaway camp has inspired a genre of cinema, so it’s curious that it calls to mind so few representations in fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

“As with all of our client representations, we do not publicly discuss confidential matters involving our representation of the President,” the spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Like the backrooms, one can find faithful representations of human behavior, and unfaithful representations.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

And yet it had been glossed over in my education, and in popular culture, representations of the war and its reasons seemed obscured.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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