Meanings
nounmixed picture (plural mixed pictures)
plural mixed pictures
- idiomaticA 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
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mixed picture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixed%20picture
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“mixed picture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixed%20picture. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mixed picture,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mixed%20picture.
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