How to Use map onto in a Sentence

map onto

verb

• This framework instead tracks points on the hand, which are mapped onto points on the robot.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2025
• So how does the national mood map onto Iowa's elections?
  — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 31 May 2026
• This maps onto extraversion in the Big Five model.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Neuroscience has long known that this voice maps onto motor regions; your brain prepares the act of speaking, even when your mouth doesn’t move.
  — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• The Ising problem is mapped onto the pulses and the interactions between them.
  — Peter McMahon, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
• Could the disturbing visions of the forest be mapped onto the history of ethnic tension and regime collapse that is deeply felt in that region?
  — Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 10 July 2026
• These effects on consumers were then mapped onto the population at large while accounting for inflation.
  — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• Indeed, researchers have found that raccoon forepaws are mapped onto their cerebral cortex – the outer layer of the brain – in a similar manner as human hands.
  — Kelly Lambert, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
• But, with almost perfect correlation, my daily activities will map onto my dreamscape.
  — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
• Many ways to be Puerto Rican Puerto Rican culture cannot be neatly mapped onto a single tradition.
  — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
• With a roster of 550 cars on launch day, any inroads to a better experience for builders must map onto a massive variety of vehicles, from tiny kei vans to burly off-roaders.
  — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
• This allows researchers to test the system at scale, explore how optimization or AI problems would map onto the hardware, and share results with outside collaborators.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
• Boise’s ask maps onto Valley Regional Transit’s Route 9, which runs from Glenwood to 5th Street in the city’s downtown.
  — Mark Dee march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
• Agent governance maps onto existing infrastructure, with privacy and reversibility as the binding constraints.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
• In Marx’s critique of political economy, this distinction maps onto the division between the objective and subjective factors of production.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
• The truth, though, is that the tradwife—as symbol, TikTok genre, source of fascination, and wedge in America’s culture war—doesn’t easily map onto a real-life category of person.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
• Enterprise operators will then build on those foundations, partnering with vendors to develop customized LLMs that map onto and streamline their operations.
  — Chris Burchett, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• The actor, whose political beliefs don’t cleanly map onto the modern divisions of the two-party system, has both a reverence for America as a set of ideals and an awareness of the faults within its history that creates interesting textual friction.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
• Over the decades, Wuthering Heights has inspired any number of telenovelas, and this slick, fevered 2019 Venezuelan miniseries is a good example of how Emily Brontë’s tale maps onto the rhythms of a soap opera.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026