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imagery

[im-ij-ree, im-i-juh-ree] / ˈɪm ɪdʒ ri, ˈɪm ɪ dʒə ri /
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Jack White invited Twin Temple to open his Hollywood Palladium show after Charley Crockett dropped the satanic doo-wop duo over their ‘unholy’ imagery.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Satellite imagery reveals that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is remodeling at least nine of his luxury compounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Death imagery as a bulwark against fear of death is so well known that it is covered under the psychological umbrella of Terror Management Theory as a coping mechanism.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

They analyzed satellite imagery capable of detecting photosynthesis at 137 oak forest sites across the eastern United States and California.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

"I put her in charge of tracking Watney. She gets us the imagery."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

In each case, she examines her life through the lens of fairy tales, demonstrating how we can draw on their moralities and imageries to make sense of ourselves and our relationship to others.

From Washington Post Apr. 11, 2023

These are very real things, very real issues that we deal with, and the dope, almost simple act of just showing regular humans can counteract years of negative imageries.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2021

As you pointed out, there are many beautiful imageries in science, and they are often produced during the course of conducting an experiment or as a way of presenting the result of said experiment.

From Scientific American Jan. 13, 2012

It represented an "airy, fairy Lilian" of eighteen, or thereabouts, lolling coquettishly, fan in hand, in an antique, high-backed chair, with "carven imageries," and a tasselled cushion.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

The poet was in Arcadia, Phillis was a shepherdess, and the conventional imageries of the pastoral valley were the environment.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote




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