big picture
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big pictures
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The big picture is an economy that, going forward, has “sort of a touch of malaise,” said Jason Furman, an economics professor at Harvard who was chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
“We can’t sit there and look at the big picture and go, ‘OK, we have X amount of games left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
"While there are measurable differences between the diets, they are modest in absolute terms. It's the big picture what matters," says Tavares.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Times with a big picture of me, sort of denouncing me.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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