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limn

[lim] / lɪm /
VERB
depict
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Who better to help us limn out these feelings of disgust, rage and desolation right now?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

Such moments of insight and empathy limn Darraj’s novel, shining through the sadness and tension of her characters’ lives.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

For Jentleson and his colleagues, part of the work of the Moscow Project is to limn a possible conspiracy without falling into conspiracy theorizing.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2017

I’m a longtime admirer of Blake’s ability to limn fully formed personas with a few scratches — surely no one could capture the wry malevolence of Dahl’s stories as well.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2016

Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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