zoom out

verb

1. photog films television to decrease rapidly the magnification of the image of a distant object by means of a zoom lens

2. to consider the essential points, rather than the details of a subject

Example Sentences

Hayes added that she felt she had been "ready" for a move away from club football after a career that saw her win seven league titles with Chelsea, and said her new role allows her to "zoom out" and use her "strategic thinking" to focus on long-term solutions.

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Zoom out and the picture becomes painfully clear.

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But zoom out a bit, and US goods imports in the first five months of the year were up 17% compared with the same period last year.

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Zoom out and these pointillist patterns are colorful doubles of the black-and-white photographs of baobab trees mounted in the foreground.

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Our vision zooms in, while the rower is poised to zoom out.

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