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[pik-cher] / ˈpɪk tʃər /








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The Daily Mail also celebrates "golden girl" Amy Hunt's record win in its picture spot.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

She’s a perfectionist at heart, something I remember with a sigh when I help her hang a picture or center a vase of flowers on her table.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The Connecticut native can picture the opening ceremony in SoFi Stadium, where she will be flanked by her fellow American Paralympians.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

A deeper examination, however, produced a very different picture.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

I know how it’ll sound if I try: I’ll look like a crazy teenager while he looks the picture of a concerned father, the victim of his unruly teenage daughter.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Crowds stand outside looking at old photos posted on bulletin boards, pictures taken of people before they were rounded up and transported to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

“All you have to do is take a bunch of pictures of people biting into something going ‘ew,’ and that creates a whole lot of excitement,” DuBois, of Circana, said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

And another thing to bear in mind - taking pictures and videos of the Sun with your phone can also damage its sensors, according to Nasa's guidance, external.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

With the technological abilities of modern cameras, including those on your phone, you can take good pictures of eclipses and other solar activity like sunspots, which look like dark patches on the Sun's surface.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

There were pictures on it, and lines and words.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

My stomach was in knots as I pictured myself clad in a lemon chiffon dress looking like a dollop of meringue, doing the Viennese waltz — something resembling a Centrum Silver commercial.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

On Wednesday night, Grafström was pictured smiling alongside Infantino at a women’s Africa Cup of Nations match in Rabat.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Several people were also pictured sleeping on the beach and on streets across the city.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

As Season 2 begins, Chris and Diarra have settled into coupledom, which is precisely what Diarra thought she wanted, but nothing like she pictured it would be.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

I may have pictured us foraging for crumbs under the ship’s stove for our dinner.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The Daily Telegraph calls the solar eclipse "the greatest show on Earth", picturing a crowd in Birmingham gazing at the phenomenon along with millions across the UK and Europe.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

But picturing your future self—and mentally “traveling back” to who you are now—has been shown to increase savings behavior, according to a 2024 study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

From MarketWatch Apr. 25, 2026

For years, Randall told anyone who would listen, “I am picturing us dancing on a rooftop in Val di Fiemme celebrating a men’s relay medal.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

I’m suddenly picturing Andre and Lisa-Marie Anne slurping on the same spaghetti noodle, Lady and the Tramp style.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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