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consisting of or relating to pictures
that photojournalist is planning to do a primarily pictorial report on the famine in Africa
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producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
she writes a very pictorial kind of poetry, using words the way a painter applies strokes of color
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Recent Examples of pictorial
Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Salinas said her paintings represent a pictorial study of her cultural identity and roots in Mexico.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Salinas said her paintings represent a pictorial study of her cultural identity and roots in Mexico.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
Bachardy’s self-portraits and drawings of Isherwood pepper the galleries, a confluence that reveals something that should be obvious: Two portrait artists, one pictorial and the other literary, resided for decades in the same household.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Skims The actor stars in the pictorial, shot by Carin Backoff, with his fiancée, model Abby Champion.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictorial
Adjective
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Seth Eli Barlow,
Arkansas Online,
28 Apr. 2026
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Anti-dictatorship, but for kids Serkis scrubs the story of its violence, at least in any graphic manner.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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The day before her 90th birthday in April 2016, the Queen marked 500 years of the Royal Mail delivery service with this vivid pink look.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
25 Apr. 2026
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Plant marigolds and asters in the same sunny spot, and these two cheery and vivid summer blooms will thrive in the full sun, hot conditions.—
Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
24 Apr. 2026
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Always a Runner won the 152nd edition of the Kentucky Oaks on Friday night, the first time the race for top 3-year-old fillies has been run under the lights in prime time at Churchill Downs.—
Stephen Whyno,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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The fourth edition of the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards received submissions from more than 8,400 filmmakers representing 162 countries and territories around the world.—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Silver is in a number of items ranging from circuit boards and other electronics, photographic and X-Ray films and jewelry.—
John Raby,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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There was the new music form of jazz and new technologies that included the production of photographic film, the phonograph, and moving images.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Whoop’s sleep data tends to be more prescriptive than descriptive.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
22 Apr. 2026
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The complete lack of descriptive wall labels for individual objects, still a matter of debate among the curators, according to Govan, privileges looking.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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The interlocking trivets lock together in twos, threes and fours for large casserole dishes and baking sheets, making a great runner for family style tablescapes.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Place the baking sheet in the freezer for a few hours until the raspberries are frozen solid.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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In the end, Jean-Pierre Jeunet agreed, and the silhouette became one of the film's visual signatures.—
Adèle Bari,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Reduce visual clutter and keep countertop appliances to a minimum.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
26 Apr. 2026
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Known for its screeching headlines, up-to-the-second scoops, and contentious practice of paying off sources for scandalous tips, the tabloid has widened its pitiless lens to include officials across the political spectrum.—
Paula Mejía,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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The tabloid is widely known to pay for images of famous people caught in potentially unflattering situations.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Pictorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictorial. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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