Thesaurus results for CLOSE-UPS

close-ups

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plural of close-up

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As this July Fourth approached, FOUND on the Guadalupe River still had about 1,800 items awaiting reunification, about half of them photographs.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
For those who cannot visit in person, the virtual tour has the same information with photographs.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026

Definition of photographs

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After a casino owner turned TV star first became President of the United States, media networks further beefed up their political coverage by treating it like entertainment, amplifying juicy play-by-plays over granular dissections of policy.

— Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
My father founded private hospitals south of Johannesburg, and my mother lectured anatomy, presiding over dissections and preparing meat dishes at home with the same attentive care — removing sinew and fat with a dedicated set of kitchen scalpels.

— Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026

Definition of dissections

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Lock Down Your Phone in 30 Minutes Your phone holds your email, passwords, photos, banking apps and personal data.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
On Thursday, photos released by state broadcaster IRIB showed the commander sitting next to Khamenei’s casket during a farewell ceremony in Tehran.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Definition of photos

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This story is part of a series of monthly snapshots from the Washington Examiner, titled Midterm Countdown, gauging the state of the 2026 election cycle.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
Departing from King Street Station, the train glides past industrial waterfronts and railyards, offering snapshots of the Puget Sound.

— Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026

Definition of snapshots

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Indeed, among 20 nations evaluated in a recent report released by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation dedicated to healthcare analyses, Americans are the most likely to skip medications, treatments, tests, and consultations due to costs.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The answer, according to two separate analyses, was a resounding no.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Definition of analyses

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The history of peacemaking – from Kadesh to the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian war, to the Belfast Agreement that halted the 30-year sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland – shows that public blowups and threats to walk out are normal stages, not proof of failure.

— Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
Schedule the fight Most blowups happen when one person is already activated and the other gets caught off guard and slips into defense mode—which means no one is actually listening.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026

Definition of blowups

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Additional tests could include handwriting analysis, fingerprint scans and DNA examination, the Journal reported.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
One of the biggest concerns is that someone with an incidental finding may then have follow-up computed tomography scans, as well as ionizing radiation and biopsy complications, searching for something that never would have caused symptoms.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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