portrayed

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At the same time, it is sensitive to the amount of interest that it pays commercial banks on their deposits, Duffie said, as this often gets portrayed as a giveaway for banks.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

What happened next is legendary, immortalized first in Lewis’s book in 2003 and then in a 2011 movie where Beane is portrayed by Brad Pitt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

He portrayed himself as an "anti globalist" but invited Germany carmakers, and Chinese and South Korean EV battery makers to Hungary.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

In film and television, book clubs are portrayed as a way for women to briefly free themselves from the shackles of domestic responsibility, sticky children, feckless husbands.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

In the wake of the first Earth Day in 1970, a group named Keep America Beautiful, Inc., put up billboards that portrayed an actor in Indian dress quietly weeping over polluted land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann