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picture show

[pik-cher shoh] / ˈpɪk tʃər ˌʃoʊ /








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"These figures, while not a complete picture, show what we've long feared," said Dr Jess Garland, the society's director of policy and research.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

Don’t folks deserve to leave the picture show with some hope?

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

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

That night after supper Grandma said, “I suppose you kids want to go to the picture show,” meaning she wanted to go to the picture show.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck




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