How to Use mapping in a Sentence
mapping
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In recent years the drones have sped up this mapping process.
—Tom Simonite, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
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Even detailed mapping leaves blind spots.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
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State wildfire mapping planes showed the fire spread 17 acres.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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Creuzot’s office pitched in here as well to make sure overdose mapping sticks.
—Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
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Better mapping has changed the acreage of this fire; its footprint has not changed.
—oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2020
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The act of mapping is never neutral.
—Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
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The jacket with graphic mapping on it that Riri wears in the lab.
—Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2022
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But his body sways evenly, a hand mapping the vocal peaks and valleys.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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Climate scientists hope a new mapping tool could help drive the point home.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
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Cities and counties ignore the mapping tool at their own peril.
—Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
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That makes mapping out a path to recovery a unique challenge.
—George Ramsay, New York Times, 23 June 2026
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Spatial mapping would make sense in gray squirrels, Leaver says.
—Emma Bryce, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
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The timeline and mapping would then have 25 years to deal with rather than fifteen.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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The concept of customer journey mapping isn’t new, of course.
—Alfred Kahn, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
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The results of the latest mapping are due to be released later this year.
—Ian James, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2021
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Overdose mapping is a key piece of the feds’ effort to track down the suppliers.
—Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
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Is Hopkins going to change its mapping and pull that figure again?
—Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 23 Oct. 2020
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The brain mapping involves putting the patient to sleep for the initial opening of the skull.
—Molly McCrea, CBS News, 18 June 2026
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For both cases, the language network is a store of these form-to-meaning mappings.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
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Right now, to see others’ pitches, people need to pull it from the mapping software.
—Shane Burke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
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That’s the space where intrinsic conative mapping lives.
—Carrie Moore, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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To be fair, the Roomba E5 lacks any sort of mapping feature at all.
—Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 22 Oct. 2020
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The final measurement comes thanks to more accurate mapping on the east end of the fire.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
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But subsequent updates to mapping put the size of the fire at 105 acres.
—Eric Hartley, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
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Box in a box A first step is mapping where the buckyballs are located.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
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Next week, the mystery of the ocean floor, a mammoth mapping project, submersibles, shipwrecks, and more.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
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Researchers hope to continue this mapping work for the rest of the Bay Area.
—Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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The slip-on footwear has a lightweight, removable sole with textured mapping that soothes and massages feet.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
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Zoox is in a testing phase doing mapping and data collection.
—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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The days of mapping out a European vacation a year in advance are over.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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