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portray

Definition for portray

verb as in represent, imitate

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He gushed about her “strong parenting and motherhood and female life element,” portraying her as reaching “younger religious women” with content about “sunscreen and parenting styles and the secret to fixing your period.”

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When AI-generated videos portray something that never happened with such realism, it stops being satire and is instead a false representation.

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With rare exceptions, bosses typically stand in as the villains in workplace movies and are often portrayed as manipulative, hard-driving taskmasters.

There is a lot of AI software that can be used to make this trend, but not all can create the flawless content social media is portraying.

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The love of ambiguity can feel somewhat coy—Ms. Tokarczuk gestures toward the existence of occult mysteries without deigning to fully portray them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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