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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 Illinois is no stranger to creative cartography.—Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 Exploring Pynchon’s novels, and cross-referencing his complex jokes, exercises empathetic cartography.—Literary Hub, 5 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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