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stock image

American  
[stahk im-ij] / ˈstɑk ˈɪm ɪdʒ /

noun

stock images plural
  1. a photograph or other image, often of a generic subject, which has been made available for use by others.


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His growing eccentricity, which included untied shoelaces and hair that spiked out in all directions, completed the stock image of a distracted scientist.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Several major owners of stock image databases plan to use the service, which would avert legal questions about copyright of images used to generate AI content.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2023

And now, by the Hollywood of ours, which has claimed to access her mind, only to serve up a recycled stock image of a magic fetus.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

These oxygen-depleting claims have appeared in many different languages: English, German, Serbian and Hebrew Facebook posts alongside the same stock image of a toddler in a mask.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2020

The dream-process mechanically reproduces its stock image the moment the intense sympathy-emotion is aroused.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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