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On Monday night, the former Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, posted a picture on X of him having a beer, external, captioned "thank you and good night. See you September".
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 snap a picture and send it to Celia, who replies with a series of heart-eye and fire emojis.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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“I admired their simplicity and generosity and thought of the pictures I made as agreements,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Their pictures carry all those memories of him.
From Slate ● 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
Jasmine Karipayeva, 27 from Kazakhstan, decided to have blepharoplasty -- surgery to remove skin from the eyelids -- after "coming across a video on TikTok", lured by low prices and pictures of professional-looking surgery.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Let’s go to the pictures sometime? Next week! I’ll scoop you up after school.”
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
He was pictured being completely still for the duration of matches, with one arm raised while smartly dressed in his country's colours.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Earlier in the week, he was joined by the Queen on a visit to London Zoo, where he was pictured during sweltering temperatures as much of the UK experiences a heatwave.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
“This isn’t—” I start to say, and Theo looks at me quizzically because he thinks I mean we have the wrong address, but really I mean that this isn’t how I pictured it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
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
“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 keep picturing his face as we drive home.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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