as in graphics
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 diagrams
Lua Vollaard,
ARTnews.com,
24 June 2026
Seven-year-old Kyron Horman stood proudly next to his presentation on red-eyed tree frogs, with his homemade tri-fold poster bursting with shades of green and glued-on diagrams of the amphibian’s life cycle.
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Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 helps users create professional diagrams that make information easier to understand and share.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
Treatment plans can be displayed on screens instead of explained through diagrams and estimates.
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Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
The collector vehicle is lowered by a cable, and the nodules are returned to the surface in a separate pipe; for simplicity, the diagrams in this article do not show both at the same time.
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Harry Stevens,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
There’s no point postulating a soul that might rise beyond the reach of artificial illumination, because the very vault of the Universe is inscribed with radiant diagrams.
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Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
Documentation, diagrams and dashboards have served as approximations of reality, and teams have relied on a combination of knowledge and experience to fill in the gaps.
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Matthew Sweeney,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
And while chip diagrams quickly age out of their microscopic, high-technology medium, Schultz’s microchip rugs take the components on which our world operates and draw out their intricacies and beauty.
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Lua Vollaard,
ARTnews.com,
24 June 2026
Seven-year-old Kyron Horman stood proudly next to his presentation on red-eyed tree frogs, with his homemade tri-fold poster bursting with shades of green and glued-on diagrams of the amphibian’s life cycle.
—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 helps users create professional diagrams that make information easier to understand and share.
—
Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
Treatment plans can be displayed on screens instead of explained through diagrams and estimates.
—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.
—
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
The collector vehicle is lowered by a cable, and the nodules are returned to the surface in a separate pipe; for simplicity, the diagrams in this article do not show both at the same time.
—
Harry Stevens,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
There’s no point postulating a soul that might rise beyond the reach of artificial illumination, because the very vault of the Universe is inscribed with radiant diagrams.
—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
Documentation, diagrams and dashboards have served as approximations of reality, and teams have relied on a combination of knowledge and experience to fill in the gaps.
—
Matthew Sweeney,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagrams
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Data and graphics assistant editor Sean Greene contributed to this report.
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Technology companies are rapidly purchasing high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to power massive commercial large language models and applications to serve their end-users.
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The Nasdaq 100 and the Dow Industrials Both indexes high new highs Wednesday.
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The ratio worth tracking is confirmed to suspected, currently about 1 in 15, which indexes how quickly the lab system is catching up to the field.
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Bloc Party’s next album charts the course of such a fling, one that frontman Kele Okereke experienced himself after separating from his long-term partner.
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Now the question for Democrats is how many more voters like Venkatesh are out there as the party charts its path toward the November midterms and the next presidential election.
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The South Beach school’s 1975-‘76 yearbook was a patriotic red, white and blue and illustrations of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the American Eagle.
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Schematics, facility maps, aerial photographs, engineering drawings, cutaway illustrations, and previously unfamiliar archival images reveal the extraordinary complexity of the undertaking.
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This book catalogues the changing face of Times Square and is the only explicitly non-novel on this list.
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The homes were mapped using the Madaster dossier, an online Material Passport that catalogs all materials and their uses, making maintenance and reuse easier and ensuring long-term sustainability.
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In fact, the only thing that rings true is how the Three Lions end up exiting the tournament.
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But don’t tell that to winger Timothy Weah, who could be in line for his first start of the tournament as Pochettino rings the changes to keep his players fresh for the round of 32.
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Based on those figures, Honsal said 731 dogs remain unaccounted for.
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Kids will create origami figures, write wishes on them and hang them on bamboo.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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Inside that habit, culture sorts itself.
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