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A 50th birthday gift from her fellow Spice Girls, a picture of a dog and a mobile phone.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Its listing certainly paints an impressive picture about the home’s many offerings, making quite the to-do about its “breathtaking views,” “lush tropical landscaping,” and “opulent” decor.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Cool Machine” is set in the 1980s, and Carney is still in the picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
A few tenths of a percentage point won’t alter the big picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
I sit here, tracing the face of the watch that my father gave me, trying to picture his smile, just as I did the first time I hid like this.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Their pictures carry all those memories of him.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
The exhibition "Hkeeli ya Jnoub", or "Tell me, O South", features pictures and videos preserving the memory of southern Lebanon at the capital's Beit Beirut museum.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
The pictures of a clearly uncomfortable Messi helping Sheila bathe her son in a blue plastic tub were published, then forgotten, until Yamal helped Spain win the 2024 European Championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Kreitzman's Mile End house is filled from top to bottom with pictures and sculptures, on every colourful wall, on every table, in every room and corridor.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“These pictures are very helpful. They’re giving me some ideas already.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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In 1995, when he was asked to lecture about childhood as depicted in 18th-century British art, what surprised him was all the dogs pictured among the children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yamal, as a baby boy himself, was famously pictured being bathed by then Barcelona star Lionel Messi.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Their work expanded on Niels Bohr's early atomic model, which pictured electrons orbiting the nucleus much like planets orbit the sun.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
England's Harry Kane is pictured on the front page of the Daily Star, which jokes that "Hurri-Kane" might have swept the kick off time forward.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Then, when his parents explained it a little better, he pictured crates in locked rooms, the doors covered with Easter Seals.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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But picturing your future self—and mentally “traveling back” to who you are now—has been shown to increase savings behavior, according to a 2024 study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
She toured some schools that happened to be cold or rainy, which kept her from fully picturing herself having a good experience there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
For years, Randall told anyone who would listen, “I am picturing us dancing on a rooftop in Val di Fiemme celebrating a men’s relay medal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Michelle Del Rosario, 57, wore a button picturing her son William, 25, on her blouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
I’m suddenly picturing Andre and Lisa-Marie Anne slurping on the same spaghetti noodle, Lady and the Tramp style.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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