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noun

plural of print
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as in impressions
a perceptible trace left by pressure one telltale sign that I had been napping was the print left by the chenille bedspread on my cheek

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as in photos
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera we now get our prints developed online

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prints

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verb

present tense third-person singular of print
as in publishes
to produce and release for distribution in printed form the newspaper's motto remains "All the News That's Fit to Print"

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Recent Examples of prints
Noun
The next few monthly prints, and whether BYD’s home-market slide stabilizes, will say how durable the pattern is. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Choose from bright red, turquoise, and purple to style with neutrals and animal prints alike. — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026 Leaning even more into the vintage patterns and textiles that shaped her inaugural capsule, the designer particularly emphasized florals applied in repeating motifs, geometric stripes, plaids, and checkered prints. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2026 In his view, the best Hiroshige prints remain undervalued when compared with Hokusai. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 An exclusive Barnes and Noble edition will include a cloth custom cover and two 8″ x 10″ frameable art prints. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026 These unconventional camo pieces styled with everything from cutoff khaki pants decorated with fruit and vegetable prints and paint splattered tops and pleated olive shorts and metallic silver heels. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026 Primary Bedroom The mingling of prints and colors continues into the primary suite, where Jenny covered a custom headboard in Serena Dugan’s Capretto Outdoor Fabric in Flame/Fuchsia and hung a piece from local artist Whitney Stoddard. — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026 McLean said the absence of identifiable prints could make jurors wonder whether gloves were used or the items were wiped, potentially viewing the missing prints as evidence of planning. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
The unexpected electrical issue at the facility that prints The Sacramento Bee and several other regional publications resulted in Monday’s newspaper being distributed digitally only. — Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026 This was all doable without creating any overhangs, so the whole thing still prints without needing supports. — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026 The new channel, the clever funnel, the ad that prints money. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 This is a company that prints more revenue every time the tape gets chaotic, and 2026 has given it plenty of chaos to work with. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 May 2026 London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ceded to censorship requests issued by the Chinese firm that prints the institution’s exhibition catalogues, according to a new report from The Guardian, who unearthed the information via FOIA requests. — News Desk, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026 Few places symbolize the move from print to digital more than Akalla, a district of Stockholm where the ST01 data center sits at a site once occupied by the factory that prints Sweden main newspaper, Kaun says. — Michael Weissenstein, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025 The chances of winning the top prizes are astronomically low because the company prints billions of game pieces but only releases a handful of key winning ones. — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025 His paternal grandma prints the flyers and helps get the word out, while his mom’s mom makes the costumes. — Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prints
  1. impressions
  2. photos
  3. publishes
  4. imprints
  5. photographs
  6. stamps
  7. snapshots
  8. pics
Noun
  • Hokusai has led the charge, with exceptional impressions of The Great Wave regularly smashing expectations.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • For example, the league secured 453 million social impressions (+97%), and 137 million social video views (+139%) this season.
    — Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of impressions
Noun
  • The flames from one explosion also burned the upper half of another crewmate’s back, according to the crew’s attorney Jorge Chiriboga Dávalos, who shared photos of the injuries.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Watch the discussion below, and scroll down for photos from the event.
    — The Deadline Team, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of photos
Verb
  • Her office maintains city code functions and publishes ordinances and resolutions retained as official records in the city’s municipal library, according to the city clerk’s office.
    — Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • One of the teams that races in Formula E, DS Penske, is part of Penske Media Corporation, which publishes Sportico.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of publishes
Noun
  • Certainly no wild horse had made the round imprints that led through the sagging door of that old building.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
  • Each molecule imprints its own barcodelike pattern onto that light, and the pattern can be seen when astronomers parse the light into its constituent colors.
    — Damien Pine, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
Definition of imprints
Noun
  • Blowing Oleksa’s cover would mean publicly admitting that there are five senators on her asset list — one of whom was seduced into posing for some, uh, compromising photographs.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2026
  • More than 150 sculptures—along with works on paper, photographs, and extensive archival material—provide the occasion for an expansive survey of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists.
    — Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of photographs
Noun
  • More than 30 independent bookstores across North Texas are inviting readers to explore their shelves, collect passport stamps, and discover the communities that make each shop unique.
    — CBS News Texas Staff, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The country also maintains electronic immigration records and has eliminated passport stamps.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of stamps
Noun
  • Today, the interiors read like snapshots of her tastes and interests over the intervening years.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this summer, Czarniak, 48, enjoyed some quality time with her family, posting a few snapshots on Instagram from their time away together.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of snapshots
Noun
  • The clip released last night shows this is a more complex, sinister strategist than Josh Brolin’s crash-bang-boom baddie Thanos from the previous Avengers pics.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Several of the pics look back at Mexico in the 1990s, while others follow teenagers navigating contemporary issues in an increasingly complicated society where their horizons feel narrower than ever.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of pics

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