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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
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
A few tenths of a percentage point won’t alter the big picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
He sounded so earnest, I couldn’t tell him I’d found the picture depressing and melodramatic.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“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
Based on videos and pictures from the public and rescuers, “it is apparent that the rescued eagle is likely Jackie,” Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a social media post late Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
He dipped the plane’s wings and told the Stoffels to take pictures.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
The Princess of Wales was pictured cheering from the sidelines as the Prince of Wales competed on a baking hot polo pitch for a charity cup.
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
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
Once again, Jonathan pictured Magpie Island on a map but this time he saw it in context with its surroundings.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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
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
They’re picturing the holidays: the turkey, the guests, and the all-important dining table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
But he had so much trouble picturing her ordinary life that his imagination failed him.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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