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consisting of or relating to pictures
that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa
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producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color
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Recent Examples of pictorial
Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The other side of this same coin is that the generative AI cannot display to the user a result in any pictorial way.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
And your pictorial really brings it home.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
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Adjective
Sixty years later, the 214 fells featured in the pictorial guides are now known as the Wainwrights, and walkers collect them like Coloradans collect fourteeners.
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Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon, written by journalist and acting editor-in-chief of Wallpaper magazine, Bill Prince, and published by Assouline, is the first book on the famous AP model in a decade (the last book, mostly a pictorial, was written by Martin K. Wehrli and Heinz Heimann in 2012).
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The term is from Gaetano Milanesi, the author of the first critical edition of Vasari’s Lives, published in nine volumes between 1878 and 1885.—
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Personal finance website WalletHub recently released the 2025 edition of its Best and Worst States to Retire list, ranking all 50 states on key factors that impact financial health and quality of life for retirees.—
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
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The characters became instantly recognizable, and every frame was crammed with visual details and jokes, especially graphic titles.—
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Even the art on the walls—her own vivid paintings—forms a cohesive thread.—
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To supporters of the new law, the Riley case is a vivid illustration of why the bill was needed.—
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According to a fact sheet for the F-35, the aircraft is worth $135 million dollars.—
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How to get self-tanner stains out of clothing and sheets How to remove self-tanner Meet the experts wellness, lifestyle, and culture.—
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In his highly photographic 4:3 frame (with picturesque, rounded edges), Kanawade tenderly unfurls each scene with intentionally languid rhythms, and extended beats between dialogue.—
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Back in the old days, astronomers would conduct galaxy surveys by taking deep space images on photographic plates and then measuring directly on the plates, in two-dimensions, the spatial distribution of the galaxies.—
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Lynch, who has died just a few days shy of his 79th birthday, was so extraordinary that fairly early in his career, his last name became the foundation of a descriptive adjective.—
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Bleak would be a nice descriptive word to use when considering that 11% are disqualified as overweight, 8% for drug abuse and 4% due to mental health issues.—
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Prince Harry reaches a settlement with Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids.—
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This marked the first time the publisher admitted wrongdoing connected to the tabloid.—
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The upcoming wrestling installment will add new features like intergender matches, new superstars, and two new game modes in addition to the usual gameplay and visual improvements.—
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Nvidia has been preparing the release of the 50 Series, which couple stellar visual performance with the power and flexibility needed to run modern AI applications, including chewing through huge sets of training data.—
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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