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The phrase "an outdated picture of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perception or representation that is no longer relevant or accurate.
Example: "The report presents an outdated picture of the current economic situation, failing to account for recent developments."
Alternatives: "an obsolete view of" or "a dated representation of".
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As Clinton points out in her book: "Many of us in the United States have an outdated picture of what's happening in our hemisphere".
Financial information tends to give an outdated picture of operational health: it will often reflect a plant's performance as it was a year or so ago.
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They have loving relationships that do not depend on an outdated picture their partner holds of their appearance, but rather a current life full of shared interests.
Additionally, while the depiction of dinosaurs in popular media has changed radically in response to advances in paleontology, a mainly outdated picture of pterosaurs has persisted since the mid 20th century.
Besides a rather outdated picture of him that the newspapers still publish regularly, there were no other images of Alipio in circulation, so it was little wonder I wasn't able to recognise him from the outset.
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Health-care experts and advocates for the poor said the report also presented an outdated picture regarding health insurance.
The US insisted that the documents, originally handed to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and then obtained by the New York Times, painted an incomplete and outdated picture of life at the camp, which scarred President George Bush's relations with the rest of the world and which President Barack Obama has failed to close as he promised.
It represents a humiliating capitulation for a brash executive who, with his ever-present cigar, suspender-snapping ways and Friday golf outings in the summer, epitomized the classic, if outdated, picture of the Wall Street chieftain.
The re-elected Barack Obama and Mexico's president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, have plenty to talk about: Mexico is changing in ways that will profoundly affect its big northern neighbour, and unless America rethinks its outdated picture of life across the border, both countries risk forgoing the benefits promised by Mexico's rise.The White House does not spend much time looking south.
This guy is a creep and a liar, probably married, and even worse, using seriously outdated pictures of himself in his online profile.
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