Synonyms for paint a picture
paint a pic·ture

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1. suggest, evoke, paint a pictureverb

   call to mind

   "this remark evoked sadness"

   Synonyms:
   conjure, extract, kindle, suggest, kick up, provoke, draw out, bring up, propose, advise, invoke, stir, put forward, call down, enkindle, hint, arouse, call forth, intimate, evoke, indicate, educe, elicit, raise, fire, conjure up

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1. Don Alway:

   We are trying to paint a picture of Byrd's life. We are trying to find out what was going on with him personally and professionally.

2. Doris Cooper Anthony:

   Its not history unless you tell the whole thing. History has been fragmented selectively to paint a picture that is delusional really.

3. David Hendler:

   They're trying to paint a picture of progress but there's still a lot of sludge in there.

4. Andy Hogue:

   That a classroom teacher – who, by the way, has the ability to prescribe ‘book club’ events and vacation reading activities – has such disdain for the very people who pay her salary is mind-boggling, but it does paint a picture of the overall cluelessness we find ourselves up against.

5. John Nelson:

   I wouldn't paint a picture that it's all bad, there is light at the end of the tunnel.