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"I spent the whole time looking at that picture questioning what on earth was going on."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Netanyahu said the picture of what happened on the flight is becoming clearer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
New evidence suggests that picture may be incomplete.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The picture of the boys was a viral TikTok prompt that encouraged users to show images of their group chats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
That was much too personal a picture to put in his head.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Time has now transformed the pictures from informal snapshots of an underground scene into historical documents.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Another was more prescriptive: “Take pictures of your food. Spend a little time and effort to make your own flyer.”
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Romero grew up in a Catholic household in Barstow, with pictures of the Pope and President Kennedy on the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She sat in the front row, snapped pictures and asked a question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The twentieth century held some surprises for us all: the flicker of the motion pictures, the yammer of the radio, the mounting rumble of foreign wars, the jangle of change.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
On Saturday he was pictured with UAE Deputy Prime Minister Hamdan bin Mohammed during a visit by the leader to his hospital bedside.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Nixon’s wife, Pat, saw them pictured on a package of cigarettes in Beijing during her husband’s historic visit in 1972.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Kennedy, pictured at the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2023, says anyone should "give anything they fancy a lash"
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Almost every night, he shouted himself awake from nightmares in which he pictured one disaster or emergency after another.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
"Zoning out happened regularly, picturing scoring and winning, what the opposition would be like - hoping they were rubbish so we could have an easy stroll," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Daily Telegraph calls the solar eclipse "the greatest show on Earth", picturing a crowd in Birmingham gazing at the phenomenon along with millions across the UK and Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I’d been picturing myself on the national team for three years.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
“About changing the ring settings. That’s just what I was picturing in the armchair tonight. Can you change the ring settings with the rotors already in the machine?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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