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depiction

noun

di-ˈpik-shən

Definition of depiction

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a vivid representation in words of someone or something the set piece of the novel is a depiction of the battle that makes readers feel like they were there

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Recent Examples of depiction The conflict is hardly the first involving a living celebrity objecting to a fictional depiction. — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 On one wall, the ambassador installed Marc Lipp’s Fight Fight Fight, a depiction of Trump with a bloody ear and raised fist painted by one of the president’s favorite Palm Beach watercolorists. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States. — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for depiction

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The camera captures a car's license plate numbers, a car's description, and the date, time and location a vehicle passed through, and uploads the data to a searchable database customers can use.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Soon after its release, Cusk was sued by one of the people mentioned in the book, who recognized himself based on Cusk’s description.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026

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Giovanna had spent almost forty years researching Fernanda and, in a way, had already created her own portrait of her.

— Roberto Prieto, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
As Ghostface prepared to leave the Boone, Kansas City artist Deaunte Thomas approached him carrying a portrait depicting Ghostface alongside other members of Wu-Tang Clan.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026

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The film stars Will Smith in his Oscar-winning portrayal of the Williams sisters’ father, Richard Williams.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Adventureland and Zombieland brought his wider recognition, followed by his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.

— Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026

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