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[dih-pikt] / dɪˈpɪkt /


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Villanueva, on the other hand, has sought to depict L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The stamps depict familiar scenes of Mary and Joseph travelling, baby Jesus, an angel, the shepherds and the Three Wise Men.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“What we don’t want to do is to depict something that doesn’t exist,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

RSI readings above 70 are believed to depict overbought conditions, which is a technical term that suggests buyers need some time to digest what they just accomplished.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

It was supposed to depict Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

The ad depicts a couple in a supermarket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

She gets a tattoo and embarks on a fling, and with great tenderness Mr. Drury depicts the fallout from her 30-year itch, as it might be called.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The ad depicts two grandparents enthusiastically hugging a young boy, but when they approach their granddaughter she appears unhappy about the exchange.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Piper Sandler’s Johnson also highlighted that the index’s chart depicts that those who bought tech stocks after the Nasdaq’s breakout to the late-September and early-October record highs got duped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It depicts the American Revolutionas a liberation movement, a clean break not just from English domination but also from the historic corruptions of European monarchy and aristocracy.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Rocky moments of Jen and Zac’s marriage have been depicted on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, prosecutors depicted Brand as someone who saw women as a "disposable commodity" who "didn't matter to him" and were simply a "means to an end".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Astronomers have long depicted distant exoplanets with smooth, circular outlines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” from the first season, depicted the effects of a power outage on an ordinary neighborhood and warned about the minds of mobs and the perils of prejudice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The painting depicted the god Janus with two faces, one masked like a comic player, the other wearing a tragic look.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Huge posters depicting Saint Toribio and Leo XIV adorn the walls of the town hall and the main church, where a piece of the saint's tibia is housed as a relic.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Mr. Compton also directs the production, which is staged on a two-tiered unit set depicting a barnacle-encrusted old pier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Among the artifacts recovered from the site is an unusual ceramic vessel depicting a seated Peruvian hairless dog with humanlike features.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

There were fantastical elements, but what set “Hey Arnold!” apart was how invested it was in depicting what life is like for a fourth grader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Ms. Keaton, do you think Shakespeare demonized dark men by depicting Caliban in that way? A friend of mine thinks so.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali


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