mixed picture

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mixed picture (plural mixed pictures)

  1. (idiomatic) A situation in which both negatives and positives are found.
    • 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:
      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.
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