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noun, often capitalized B&P

Definition of big picture

: the entire perspective on a situation or issue —used with the

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 Climate lab director Timmons Roberts says the study’s ideas can be applied to other states because the big picture is largely the same, due to natural gas leakage. — USA TODAY, "Disney surprise, foreign feral hogs, porous pavement: News from around our 50 states," 13 Sep. 2019 The bigger picture to my father was always his family, and the Warriors had become his family. — Alvin Attles Iii, The Mercury News, "On the occasion of his father’s induction into the basketball Hall of Fame, a son pays tribute," 6 Sep. 2019

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First Known Use of big picture

1904, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of big picture was in 1904

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