How to Use stock photo in a Sentence

stock photo

noun
Definition of stock photonext
  • The next image shows a stock photo of the T-shirt that was purchased during the couple’s visit.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Tacopina is a flashy, brawny bulldog of an attorney, like a stock photo of a New York City trial lawyer come to life.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The majority of the profile images appeared to be stock photos, and the job titles were all facetious.
    — Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The last nine frames in the grid, which ran until 2032, were placeholders for the future, holding stock photos of silvergrass instead of students.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • In the age of content creation, countless professionals and day-to-day social media users have wasted tons of time scrolling through the same stock photo sites.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There is no public profile for Amelia Washington outside of the news site, and a reverse image search of the photo used with her bio suggests a stock photo was used.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
  • Through its partnership with the NBA, which started in 2001, the stock photo company has the exclusive commercial rights.
    — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 26 June 2024
  • Here’s how the scam works: The fraudster uses stock photos of an attractive person to entice potential investors.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 7 July 2023
  • Eliminate listings that show more stock photos of the destination than of the Airbnb property itself.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 9 May 2023
  • Adobe, the owner of Photoshop, has positioned itself as a leader in reining in AI content, but its own stock photo website was recently full of fake images of the war in Gaza.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes photos look a little too perfect—because some scammy listings use stock photos in their listing.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 9 May 2023
  • For example, the stock photo site Shutterstock has a partnership to provide training data for OpenAI.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The account’s profile picture appears to be a stock photo used across a number of international business websites — and the handful of tweets from Shepherd’s account are all directed at critics.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Inside its sterile, 800 or so square feet, there’s a wall of mirrors, stock photos of people performing various exercises and fluorescent lighting that makes the plastic plants in the corner look even more fake.
    — Ben Barzilai Christopher Lee, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Spears was equally upset, posting a stock photo of a boy bullying a girl on the school ground along with a long note decrying the reporting, also without addressing the specific allegations on Instagram.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 June 2023
  • Billions of dollars are being funneled into AI companies, much of it in service of corporate profits: writing emails more quickly, creating stock photos more efficiently, delivering ads more effectively.
    — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The profiles listed for its chief commercial officer Ray Kwong and an executive sales representative Johnny Rico featured stock photos and employment histories that couldn’t be verified by any of their purported former employers.
    — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023

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