as in chart
an illustration of certain features of a geographical area
a wall map of the United States
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Recent Examples of map
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
If animals do indeed have feelings about surveillance and privacy, those feelings won’t map cleanly onto ours.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
South Miami-Dade, which the Trust maps as between Kendall Drive and the Monroe County line, saw a 4% increase in unsheltered homelessness.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The South Pole Telescope has also helped astronomers probe the nature of dark energy, map galaxy clusters and help look at large-scale structures of the cosmos.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
If animals do indeed have feelings about surveillance and privacy, those feelings won’t map cleanly onto ours.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
At the time, Senior Judge Lynne Battaglia ordered the legislature to draw up a new map.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
South Miami-Dade, which the Trust maps as between Kendall Drive and the Monroe County line, saw a 4% increase in unsheltered homelessness.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for map
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Bronx and Banco At the Bronx and Banco runway show in Chelsea, stars from the Billboard charts, reality TV and even a former Nickelodeon star sat front row for the collection.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bud Dupree and Kyle Kennard were listed as Mack’s backups on the Chargers’ depth charts.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Data from Cirium, an aviation data analytics company, shows that all airlines are planning to fly fewer seats to Tulum in the months ahead.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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Friedland’s Ivanhoe Atlantic, formerly High Power Exploration, plans to invest $5 billion in infrastructure projects in Africa's Liberty Corridor, connecting Guinea to Liberia.—
Yessar Rosendar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The farmer's innovation exemplifies prosocial AI; systems that are tailored, trained, tested and targeted to bring out the best in and for people and planet; technology that is designed to strengthen rather than extract from social fabric.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This set includes six hangers, each designed with five holes that can hold five garments both horizontally (up to 6 pounds) and vertically (up to 8 pounds).—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bond yields are shaped in part by expectations of the benchmark interest rate set by the Fed, some experts said.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The dialogue will explore her career milestones and the philosophies that have shaped her artistry, including the practice of detachment, a theme both Jones and Akil connect to through lessons learned from Oprah Winfrey.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Map.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/map. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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