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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
Joshua Dubler, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Get a lotus, bro! Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
Carmel Dagan, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
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).
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
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Adjective
Howie’s pictorial style is designed for radio, and radio is key to Mets fans’ tenderness toward Howie.
—Joshua Dubler, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Get a lotus, bro! Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
In January 1960 Stevens was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month (she was later featured in Playboy pictorials in 1965 and 1968, and on the magazine’s list of the 100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th Century, Stevens appeared at No. 27).
—Carmel Dagan, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
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).
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
Noun
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At the end of one of the most dramatic editions of The Masters in history, Rory McIlroy emerged from the pack and made history.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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But the real standout is a platinum edition (limited to 200 pieces) that displays the hour window at 11 o’clock (with the numbers turned on their side) and the minutes (also tilted) at about 4 o’clock.—
Michael Solomon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Part of this surge is just practical, said Elizabeth Goodspeed, a graphic designer and writer.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The author draws a vivid portrait of her family’s socially marginal milieu, but her rapist presents multiple challenges of perspective.—
Leslie Camhi,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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Captured in vivid detail, the shimmering pieces of metal are tiny reminders of the region's pivotal gold-rush era of the 1860s.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Apr. 2025
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Among the weird things people left behind were a full sheet of uncut $2 bills, a toilet seat, silicone butt pads, a rattlesnake preserved in a jar of whiskey and an antique French guide to performing exorcisms.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Even more, the experts added, a prolonged hike in bond yields could in theory threaten the financial system if costly debt strains the balance sheets of large banks and other key firms.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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To be clear, this was a photographic corona; no one saw it with their own eyes.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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During the team’s 2021 photographic effort to document all the inscriptions and graffiti on the walls of the Cenacle, the technique revealed writing and drawings whose colors had faded beyond recognition.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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That’s descriptive, certainly, but still doesn’t really tell us what a star is.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2025
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Again, cisgender and cis are not slurs, and the misinformation around the terms is likely due to the broadly anti-trans conservative campaign against basic descriptive language for those outside the majority.—
Quispe López,
Them,
18 Mar. 2025
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Getting dumped via text is one thing; getting dumped via the tabloids is another entirely.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The story was made for the tabloids—Temer was seventy-five years old, and his wife, a former beauty queen, was thirty-two.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Combat now includes sound effects, visual effects, hit reactions and crosshairs.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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In his new book Cinema of Extractions (Columbia University Press), Caltech professor of visual culture Brian Jacobson puts the spotlight on the physical footprint of the business of Hollywood.—
Degen Pener,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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