the big picture
Example Sentences
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In the big picture — what this all means to Major League Baseball — this series makes no difference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Instead, Badenoch grounded this speech in the big picture tussle to be trusted between Labour and the Conservatives – and in particular who was better placed to deliver a growing economy.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Our work on extreme debris disks helps us bring together the big picture of what we currently understand."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the big picture, AI’s impact on job numbers has been “very muted right now,” said ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
They believed, further, that public financial markets lacked investors with an interest in the big picture.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
