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Recent Examples of diagram
Noun
But the four-ellipse diagram doesn’t have rotational symmetry. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2025 At age 90, the University of Chicago emeritus professor stood demurely before an audience of local teachers, plumbers, children and housewives explaining complex diagrams and math equations on an overhead projector. Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
The next morning Payton and the rest of the Broncos’ party asked Nix to diagram those reads and concepts on a board. Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024 In most classical schools, phonics reign, and students learn grammar by diagramming sentences. Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for diagram
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagram
Noun
  • The Blue Book will streamline the world of the books and real life, with scenes from Hilderbrand’s novels written in the 144-page guidebook alongside watercolor illustrations by artist Meredith Hanson, known for her paintings of Nantucket and local businesses on the island.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Watch the video below for an illustration of the changes.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Common raccoons, for instance, are cataloged as nocturnal in the scientific literature, but hundreds of observations from around the Americas showed instances of raccoon activity in the day, night, and twilight.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Their digital assets and security controls were cataloged with their context and relationships.
    Karen Kim, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • While Washington debates the merits of engagement, Russia is charting its own course.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Devil In The Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke charts the career and downfall of Franke, beginning with her first ever YouTube videos.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The company’s growth streak has been driven by the fact that its data center graphics processing units, or GPUs, are essential hardware for building and deploying artificial intelligence applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
    Kif Leswing, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Photograph in first graphic by Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times.
    Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • While indexing the cost basis for inflation would bring record-keeping complexities for taxpayers and brokerage firms, it could also be seen as a potential pro-economic-growth tax policy.
    Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Others have asked for it to be permanently indexed to inflation.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Crescent Bend Nature Park This 190-acre park in nearby Schertz has a single 1.6-mile circular gravel trail that can be looped for a longer trek or bike ride.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The prospect runs a straight line from the first cone to the second and then loops around the second and third cones.
    RJ Kraft, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The visuals and performance of Monster Hunter Wilds have been the subject of much debate, and its performance on PC specifically has resulted in a number of negative reviews as people want Capcom to work on optimization further.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Like how a piece of concept art informs the visuals, these songs guided the audio direction for each of the bosses that Hazel encounters.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Despite the depth and breadth of his transactions, Sweeney did not classify his work as a teardown.
    Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Using data from nearly 10,000 herbarium specimens, scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have brought attention to the conservation status of these plants, revealing that 87 species—almost half of the genus—are now classified as threatened with extinction.
    Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025

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