portrayals

noun

plural of portrayal
as in depictions
a vivid representation in words of someone or something his novel presents a moving portrayal of a woman searching for personal fulfillment and happiness

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Recent Examples of portrayals 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 Civic Life, showing artists’ portrayals of experience in the courthouse, the polling place, the political headquarters, and elsewhere. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Researchers said participants wanted content creators, influencers and television and film producers to offer more nuanced and authentic portrayals of religion and spirituality. — City News Service, Daily News, 18 Aug. 2026 Growing up, Schoenbrun sadly got used to seeing negative portrayals of trans characters in films. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 Jeremy Davies delivers one of the better, more charismatic portrayals of Manson in this second adaptation of Helter Skelter, which aired on CBS in 2004. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026 Film portrayals, even or perhaps especially powerful ones that change the legal landscape, often leave out the background socioeconomic considerations that shape individual decisions. — Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026 Receiving acclaim for those realistic portrayals still doesn’t feel real to Infiniti. — Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for portrayals
  1. depictions
  2. portraits
  3. descriptions
  4. pictures
Noun
  • The patent includes several depictions that closely resemble its current offerings.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Under each of their names are depictions of their respective childhood homes.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of depictions
Noun
  • 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
Definition of portraits
Noun
  • 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
Definition of descriptions
Noun
  • Starting in the 1930s, as talking pictures and then radio and TV supplanted theater as the prime form of mass entertainment, some were converted to cinemas.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of pictures

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“Portrayals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portrayals. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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