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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
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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
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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
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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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