diagramming

verb

variants or diagraming
present participle of diagram
1
as in categorizing

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2
as in charting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagramming
  1. categorizing
  2. charting
  3. classifying
  4. surrounding
  5. cataloging
  6. drawing
  7. analyzing
  8. circling
Verb
  • Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday rejected the idea that election monitors being deployed to polls during the midterm elections will be armed, categorizing the notion as fearmongering and false.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the recent gains came from re-categorizing conservation agreements that had already existed.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of categorizing
Verb
  • The deal also includes representation for Cooper’s husband Matt Kaplan, and their media and entertainment company Unwell, which includes Cooper’s top-charting podcast, as well as live events and a film and TV production arm.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
  • That's because any new Fed members would need to be confirmed by the Senate, which would be unlikely to support a nominee who wouldn't support the central bank charting its own course.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of charting
Verb
  • The prosecution argued that the victims — who all belonged to the church and had since left — delayed reporting the incidents or classifying them as rape due to fear of retaliation for violating a Scientology rule against going to the police.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Operators fed Maven intelligence classifying the elementary school as an Iranian military facility, and the system, in turn, marked it as one of the priority targets for day one of the war.
    — Kylie Jones, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of classifying
Verb
  • The core plasma must stay searingly hot for atomic nuclei to fuse, but the surrounding chamber walls must stay cool enough to avoid structural failure.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Mike Katinsky, an ACLU volunteer election monitor, said the attention surrounding Fulton County's election operations may have contributed to efforts to maintain transparency.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of surrounding
Verb
  • In her view, anyone busy cataloging the show’s excesses was liable to miss the joke.
    — Danielle Naer, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Foster estimates that cataloguing the next five decades of Rauschenberg’s output will take some twenty years.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cataloging
Verb
  • Adam has always coped with the world by drawing—his artwork on yellow legal pads and sticky notes illustrates the novel—but now there’s a new girl in school who’s praised for her artwork, and Adam feels his identity as an artist slipping away.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Pan Yunzhe founded Wuji in 2019, eventually moving much of the team to Shenzhen and drawing backers such as Ant Group, HSG and Future Capital, according to PitchBook.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of drawing
Verb
  • For example, discussing voter turnout — analyzing voter characteristics such as age, family income and race/ethnicity — can help develop an understanding of statistics and data visualization.
    — Ismar Volić, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Technology Will Carry More Of The Load Trade execution technology is becoming increasingly capable of analyzing these trade-offs.
    — Adam Cohn, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of analyzing
Verb
  • These are the questions circling in the aftermath of Tuesday’s bloodbath.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The Hollywood Reporter first reported in October 2025 that Driver was circling the project.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of circling
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