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delineations

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plural of delineation

as in sketches

a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene his simple but striking delineations of Dutch landscapes

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a vivid representation in words of someone or something a finely wrought delineation of a young couple's first experience with love and loss

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The baseball player, entertainer and social media personality rose to fame with the exhibition barnstorming baseball team, which puts on dance routines, comedy sketches and more.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
Some historians point to one of Leonardo’s sketches from about the same time that show a David-like nude with a leaf over its groin, arguing that Leonardo wanted Michelangelo’s masterpiece modestly concealed.

— Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026

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That job needed vivid descriptions that made each performance feel irresistible.

— Connie Etemadi, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026
But the primary focus of these chapters is the family’s frenzied social calendar, featuring exhaustive descriptions of parties, guest lists, and gowns.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

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Wednesday and Tuesdays major money lottery drawings dropped jackpot winnings all over Miami-Dade, including two hits in one place.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Rather than presenting Zumthor’s work through drawings or conventional architectural documentation, Wenders trains his camera on the people who encounter, inhabit and build these spaces, letting the buildings unfold from the inside.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

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In portraits in homes and classrooms, in daily photographs on the front page of the country’s main party newspaper, on the lapel badges that citizens had pinned over their hearts, Kim’s image was the very iconography of the state.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
After two decades in commercial property and about two years of drawing bad dog portraits, Heckels quit his job and started drawing portraits nearly every day instead.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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Continue reading … AMERICAN CULTURE QUIZ – Test yourself on presidential portrayals and summer sips.

— , FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Google became embroiled in a prior controversy in February 2024 after its Gemini text-to-image tool produced portrayals of racially diverse German WW2 soldiers.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026

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