Thesaurus results for REPRESENTATION

representation

noun

Definition of representation

as in depiction

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 representation This year’s report found a clear decrease in the representation of women, nonbinary and trans people in major roles. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026 That emphasis on representation resonates with Kimberly Vincent, owner of Top Notch Vegan Vittles, who is returning for her second year as an Uplift vendor. — Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026 The frozen velocity of paint whipped across a canvas suggested a new visual metaphor for intensity, aggression, violence, virility, force, energy, music, and ecstasy, a more efficient representation than any previous word or picture had managed. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026 Sanders, in only his second season since being drafted in 2025, has hired Adie von Gontard of Young Money APAA Sports, as his first NFL representation. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for representation

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Noun

Chen initially resisted the rainbow-like chromatic aberration familiar from other screen depictions of superpowers.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The painting will be displayed alongside an ancient relief borrowed from the National Roman Museum, reportedly introduced to Rembrandt through a reproduction, that inspired his depiction of Bathsheba attended to by a footmaid.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of depiction

Noun

The work, known as the Tondo of the Two Brothers, dates back to the 2nd century and belongs to a group of paintings known as the Fayum portraits.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay chose Milton Rogovin’s informal, untitled portrait of a beautiful young Buffalo woman from his East Side, 1961-63 collection.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of portrait

Noun

The image is then precision-fabricated into a 3D model that’s finished by hand — all for $2,200, about the national average of an actual wedding gown.

— Ari Stark, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
This sort of puzzling connection between text and image is repeated throughout the exhibition.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of image

Noun

More than 265,000 other tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $10 to $50,000 in the drawing, the lottery said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The exhibition culminates with the Future Indicative (1977), collaging Krasner’s figure drawings.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of drawing

Noun

In my tests, with the lower-brightness Cinema mode, the UHZ36 was easily bright enough to deliver a suitably bright picture for both SDR and HDR material on my 90-inch screen in a dark room.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026
That ended Notre Dame's 16-game winning streak and is one of several outcomes that are going to shake up the rankings and CFP picture in a big, big way.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of picture

Noun

Her work combines music, illustration, animation and fashion.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
But the Iran example – and particularly the ongoing episodic closures of the Strait of Hormuz – is one of the best illustrations today of how merely invoking credibility to act is not the same as having an overall endgame strategy.

— Christopher Nichols, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of illustration

Noun

Prosecutors allege Freire raped one of the women while she was incapacitated, took photographs of the unconscious roommates and shared the images with others.

— Alice Gainer, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Together, the two then traveled to Santorini, Antiparos, and Athens, making their way through the landscapes Susan had long admired in photographs.

— Jenn Sinrich, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of photograph

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