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portrait

[pawr-trit, -trayt, pohr-] / ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr- /


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As "the symbol of one's personality" voice is subject to "publicity rights" and "rights to prevent unauthorised use of one's portrait and likeness", the ministry said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The museum believes the woman in its portrait was a young enslaved woman from a Dutch colony in Guyana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Primetime” presents itself as a story about Hansen’s callous quest for ratings and notoriety at the expense of his tact, but the portrait is unfinished.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Unlike the many delicate original artifacts elsewhere in the exhibition, this one was made to let visitors get close and take home their own slightly unsettling family portrait.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Perhaps the admiral will agree to sit still for a portrait, Beowulf. In the meantime, we had best cut him down and continue on our way. Lord Fredrick’s party will be here any minute.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

His first real break came when his peer and podcast co-host Johnson matched the painting’s partial signature to one scrawled on a pair of 1781 portraits in the Netherlands’ Museum de Waag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

There are thousands of masterpiece portraits whose subjects remain unidentified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

From there, he rose through the ranks of the company, taking charge of an office where his portraits and keenly observed caricatures of colleagues were prominently displayed.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

That’s certainly the opinion of Mye Hoang, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose 2022 documentary, “Cat Daddies,” offers loving portraits of a series of men who have been forever changed by their cat bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

I thought about that day with Thomas, when we’d been staring at the portraits of space heroes and legends in the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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