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picture show

[pik-cher shoh] / ˈpɪk tʃər ˌʃoʊ /








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But technicolor big screen picture show treatment just doesn’t jibe with the persona.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

A twenty-eight-year-old white man, he had the stock handsomeness of an extra in a Western picture show: short brown hair, slate-blue eyes, square chin.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

Volleyball in a hijab: Does this picture show a culture clash?

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2016

And so at the end of Voyager’s 12-year-long cosmic picture show, scientists might have seen a preview of coming attractions.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2014

“Come on, you didn’t think we’d drive all this way just to go to a silly picture show, did you?”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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