as in illustration
something that visually explains or decorates a text
the explanation of the process of photosynthesis is accompanied by a very useful diagram
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Recent Examples of diagram
Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
After the supplies were unloaded, Qasem Hassan pulled a medical smock over her black jacket and entered a classroom decorated with diagrams of the digestive system.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Vision 2024 delivers advanced diagramming tools for any professional's toolbox.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Using tools like the fishbone diagram to track symptoms back to their source.
—Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
After the supplies were unloaded, Qasem Hassan pulled a medical smock over her black jacket and entered a classroom decorated with diagrams of the digestive system.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Verb
While historical, the real driver of the book is her style guides, which highlight the vocabulary of diamonds, diagramming the parts of rings.
—Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Vision 2024 delivers advanced diagramming tools for any professional's toolbox.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagram
Noun
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An illustrator and illustrations teacher at the time, Jacobsen learned of Machine Head, a metal fabrication shop in the Crossroads, through Arts Upload, a PBS show featuring local art.—
Madeline King,
Kansas City Star,
24 June 2025
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Featuring illustrations by Nenka Myers, the book will arrive in spring 2026.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
23 June 2025
Verb
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This involves cataloging and categorizing data across the business and implementing data discovery capabilities.—
Leon Bian,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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In the journal American Entomologist, Louis C. Rutledge catalogs and taxonomizes the one hundred and eighty poems Emily Dickinson wrote in which arthropods of some variety appear: lots of bees and butterflies, but also gnats, worms, and of course her famous fly.—
Hannah Brooks-Motl
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
Verb
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The compilation returns to the Top Album Sales chart at No. 43.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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America's 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report Starting later this year, visitors to the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C. will be able to chart their own course through America’s past with a new choose-your-own-adventure-style exhibition.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 June 2025
Noun
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After all, Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) are a key driver of the AI revolution.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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When the investment costs more than the return Over time, those mitigations have degraded graphics processing performance by as much as 20 percent, a member of the Ubuntu development team recently reported.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
Verb
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The Senate Finance Committee’s draft would permanently increase the maximum per child credit to $2,200 beginning in 2025 and index it for inflation.—
Elaine Maag,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The measure would also index this figure for inflation after 2025.—
Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
Verb
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Garrett left that second splitter up, and Ozuna looped it down the left-field line to score three.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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The Lake Michigan Circle Tour is a 1,100-mile road trip that loops around that lake.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Combining two facets of the school’s core identities of text — through visuals, culture and conceptualization and texture — with the material quality of surface, the show embodied the duality of innovation and tradition, concept and craftsmanship and design and matter.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
20 June 2025
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The visual of Ship 36 going up in flames harkens back to those previous explosions, along with the fiery demise of a Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad in 2016 under circumstances similar to Wednesday night's incident.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
19 June 2025
Verb
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This component classifies requests and forwards to the WAF just the ones needing inspection, such as dynamic content requests, and offloads the WAF by caching responses.—
Alexander Krizhanovsky,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The shooting now classified as a-homicide was the third killing reported during a violent weekend in Kansas City, as temperatures soared above 90 degrees across the region.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2025
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“Diagram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diagram. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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