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a visual design intended to look like someone or something
The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.
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Recent Examples of representations
Both companies have until July 6 to make final representations before Nandy makes a formal decision on an intervention.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Key challenges involve achieving long-horizon consistency, developing robust representations, and acquiring crucial interactive data moats.
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Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.
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Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
With every passing year, as historical mysteries are solved, and documents and artifacts emerge from attics and museum archives, those representations become more accurate.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
For Nijhon, the first step toward better policy is centering more nuanced representations of motherhood, not the kind of fringe rage bait that is loudest online.
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Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Visio is designed to help users create flowcharts, organizational charts, process maps, floor plans, network diagrams, and other visual representations of complex information.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
In addition to studying race and gender demographics in the film industry, the report also examined on-camera representations of disability.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
The standouts, however, came in the form of hieroglyphic representations.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
Key challenges involve achieving long-horizon consistency, developing robust representations, and acquiring crucial interactive data moats.
—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.
—
Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
With every passing year, as historical mysteries are solved, and documents and artifacts emerge from attics and museum archives, those representations become more accurate.
—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
For Nijhon, the first step toward better policy is centering more nuanced representations of motherhood, not the kind of fringe rage bait that is loudest online.
—
Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Visio is designed to help users create flowcharts, organizational charts, process maps, floor plans, network diagrams, and other visual representations of complex information.
—
Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
In addition to studying race and gender demographics in the film industry, the report also examined on-camera representations of disability.
—
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
The standouts, however, came in the form of hieroglyphic representations.
—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for representations
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Later pictures showed the structure being towed within the lagoon.
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Space-age music blared night-club-loud as pictures of birds, plants, and flowers cascaded down the walls.
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But Comer and Jackman’s roles reverse the ballad’s depictions.
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O’Connor’s harrowing depictions of the effects of irresistible grace on the willfully self-damned aren’t everyone’s chalice of wine.
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Alongside artist and archival producer Hudson Campbell, who created oil portraits of the four central figures, the team leaned on AI to add animation, movement, expression, and immediacy to people whose likenesses were absent from history.
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The Pompadour Suite is theatrical in its own way, with dramatic portraits, antique furnishings, and oak floors.
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The prize has been building for more than three months without a winner, setting up one of the biggest drawings of the year.
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An exhibition last year of drawings and ephemera from the making of the Fox Trot Carousel reminded people about the carousel, Lusk said.
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Ukraine has carried out major drone strikes on Russia’s two largest cities, embarrassing the Kremlin with images of black plumes of smoke that circulated widely online, despite regulations restricting their publication.
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Second, brighter satellites also create streaks in telescope images that mar observations.
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The evidence included surveillance video of Anthony fleeing the bleachers after the stabbing, body camera footage of his confession during arrest and photographs of the knife used.
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The genteel decor takes its cues from the quintas (farms) of local wine grandees, and each room features photographs and accessories contributed by a different Portuguese winemaker.
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