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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Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Vision 2024 delivers advanced diagramming tools for any professional's toolbox.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
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
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Noun
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
Verb
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
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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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Most of these deals are cataloged on Locals Unlocked Las Vegas, a new resource launched earlier in June by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.—
Matt Villano,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
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Her image lives on almost exclusively through paparazzi photos — photos that have been dissected and cataloged for a generation of fashion aficionados.—
Pilar Melendez,
NBC news,
23 June 2025
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Cowboy Carter also stayed at the pinnacle of the Top Country Albums chart for four weeks.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
30 June 2025
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Her comeback journey, Roord to Recovery, was charted in a documentary.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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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
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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
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One slot has cushions for rings, another has holes to secure earrings, and the final section is outfitted with snap closures to loop chains.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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The fact that the star does not appear to be looped into whatever is going on with the film is not promising.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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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 7 Jul. 2025.
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