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Beneath the spike, the domestic picture is more encouraging than the headline suggests, she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
One significant gap in our financial picture is that we do not currently own a home.
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
The team will also work with anglers in hubs including Looe, Falmouth and Brightlingsea, to look at catch records to help build up "the most complete picture yet" of shark distribution.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
I kept staring at the picture, trying to get it.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Their pictures carry all those memories of him.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
In another work called "What Remains", Sama Beydoun, 29 and living in Paris, showed pictures of her grandfather's now-destroyed home in Bint Jbeil, near the border with Israel, which she last saw in 2025.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Anya says she first met Epstein at his sprawling 18-room Paris apartment, decorated with pictures of himself posing with people such as Bill Clinton and other world leaders.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Certainly “The Odyssey” is among the year’s best pictures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was a first-rate book with lots of pictures in it.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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
Meanwhile, Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pictured in the royal box at Wimbledon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
It wasn’t like I’d pictured it, nor anywhere I wanted to be.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
With his gray-and-white mane sleekly accentuating his black and lavender ensemble, he struts with an eminence that had me picturing Eartha Kitt in a Bob Fosse spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
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
Stop picturing a standard vending machine with rotating coils and falling snacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
“I knew that we were going to film in that house when I read the script so I was picturing all the rooms while I was reading,” says Larsen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
I was already picturing Nan’s brace gussied up, though she wasn’t one for sequins—maybe silver studs.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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