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mixed picture

mixed picture noun: a situation in which both negatives and positives are found.

Noun

mixed picture (plural mixed pictures)

  1. (idiomatic) A situation in which both negatives and positives are found.
    • However, the president also approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two years in office than his predecessor, Donald Trump, according to the Bureau of Land Management. It is, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges, a mixed picture.2023 September 3, David Smith, “‘There’s a very real danger here’: AOC on 2024, the climate crisis and ‘selling out’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of mixed picture

pluralmixed pictures

Questions about mixed picture

What does mixed picture mean?
Mixed picture means a situation in which both negatives and positives are found.
What part of speech is mixed picture?
Mixed picture is a noun.
What is the plural of mixed picture?
The plural of mixed picture is mixed pictures.

Words near mixed picture in the dictionary

  1. mixed origins
  2. mixed oxide
  3. mixed oxides
  4. mixed parentage
  5. mixed perspective
  6. mixed picture
  7. mixed pictures
  8. mixed plate
  9. mixed plates
  10. mixed race
  11. mixed raster content

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