Thesaurus results for CLOSE-UPS

close-ups

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plural of close-up

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Wiener not only leaves behind a richly complex body of work straddling textiles, painting, photographs, and collages, but also a career intricately connected to one of the most important chapters of Austrian art.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Fans have been making the pilgrimage for years, but photographs of a mass gathering on the bridge between the band’s Prague concerts in 2024 appear to have helped fuel a modern-day boom.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of photographs

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Aortic dissections are estimated to occur in 20,000 people in the United States every year, half of which are fatal.

— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 July 2026
Aortic dissections occur when the inner layer of tissue in the aorta, which carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body, ruptures.

— Veronique Greenwood, Time, 13 July 2026

Definition of dissections

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Bystander videos and photos posted by on social media showed a man sitting on the ground with his hands behind his back, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

— Philip Marcelo, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Police say that Wyatt continued the conversations even after being informed that the person was 13, going as far as requesting explicit photos.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of photos

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County and regional leaders can use and are using the insights from the economic analyses to inform decision-making across industries, including planning and development.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
After taking down such accounts, companies would write reports and researchers (including us) would publish analyses to explain the evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures of online influence campaigns.

— RENÉE DIRESTA, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of analyses

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LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
But through a little more than a year together, there have been no blowups with Metcalf.

— Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of blowups

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