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picture show

[pik-cher shoh] / ˈpɪk tʃər ˌʃoʊ /








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"These figures, while not a complete picture, show what we've long feared," said Dr Jess Garland, the society's director of policy and research.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

But technicolor big screen picture show treatment just doesn’t jibe with the persona.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2019

A twenty-eight-year-old white man, he had the stock handsomeness of an extra in a Western picture show: short brown hair, slate-blue eyes, square chin.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

And so at the end of Voyager’s 12-year-long cosmic picture show, scientists might have seen a preview of coming attractions.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2014

He thought of her hoarse, boyish voice and of her habit of hitching up her khaki shorts and swaggering like a cowboy in the picture show.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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