Collocations withpicture
These are words often used in combination withpicture.
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accurate picture
Every effort is made to present an accurate picture of seventeenth-century life - from outward appearances to the innermost beliefs of both cultures.
From theCambridge English Corpus
big picture
The analysis of political change manages to be subtle and detailed without losing sight of the big picture.
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clear picture
Some respondents painted a clear picture of the way in which not having children led to problems.
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coherent picture
Before the above arguments are fitted into a coherent picture, it is appropriate briefly to probe into the reasons for the differing degrees of cohesiveness.
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complete picture
In general, there is agreement that all of the approaches capture different pieces of the puzzle, while no single indicator can yield a complete picture.
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composite picture
Such results, taken together with the empirical data on economic determinants of sovereign ratings, sketch an interesting composite picture.
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detailed picture
Recent progress of structural, biochemical and computational approaches has provided a fairly detailed picture of the catalytic mechanisms employed by the ribosome.
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dismal picture
That dismal picture has been ameliorated slightly by one undeniable success story—the youth opportunities programme.
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Hansard archive
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distorted picture
Because of these various omissions, his characterization of the minimalist program in this section provides a somewhat distorted picture.
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inaccurate picture
He accuses cultural historians - some named, others anonymous - of selecting texts which depict an under-nuanced and hence inaccurate picture of the past.
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incomplete picture
In a bilingual context, to consider either language in isolation gives an incomplete picture.
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more nuanced picture
A meticulous historical examination, however, reveals a more nuanced picture.
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one-sided picture
And the result is, of course, a sharply one-sided picture.
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overall picture
And the law notoriously sustains a fair amount non-meshing, pockets of anti-coordination, and so on, so the overall picture usually looks more modular than homogeneous.
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picture naming
Therefore, it is possible that homonyms would be responded to more accurately than novel words in a task emphasizing lexical representations, such as picture naming.
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pretty picture
The act of drawing may become a sort of 'soothing nothingness', creating a pretty picture focused on an object in the space, rather than the enclosure or the space itself.
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profile picture
He can choose his profile picture, set his username for that server, and set up his player stats.
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realistic picture
The aim to transfer a realistic picture of current rehabilitation robotics was obviosly achieved.
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rosy picture
This rosy picture of female dominance can, of course, easily be inverted.
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vivid picture
The war poems certainly stand as a vivid picture of what that looks like.
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