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In that role, Merchant is focusing on cognitive cartography, a method for structuring complex information into semantic maps that reveal how ideas and concepts relate to one another.—Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025 But, if the experience of the Oslo Accords—where Areas A, B, and C in the West Bank hardened from interim arrangements into a permanent cartography of control—is any guide, provisional lines drawn in the name of security almost never remain provisional.—Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2025 Inside, a cartography of the empire’s carbon emissions since 1750 forces the viewer to reckon with the scale of the harm caused to both earth and people.—Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025 Maritime academies proliferated across Europe, teaching navigation, cartography, and global commerce.—Solange Charas, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cartography
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Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1
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