as in to chart
to show and compare the values of variables in a set of data by means of a drawing
They used a computer program to graph monthly rainfall amounts over a period of five years.
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Recent Examples of graph
The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) is graphed below.
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Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season?
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Target’s website shows graphing calculators selling between $55 and $210 depending on the brand and model.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2025
Tapping the card shows more details with your movement score (called Movement Index) graphed over time and total tallies of active minutes and hours.
—PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
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Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season?
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Target’s website shows graphing calculators selling between $55 and $210 depending on the brand and model.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2025
Tapping the card shows more details with your movement score (called Movement Index) graphed over time and total tallies of active minutes and hours.
—PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graph
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On Monday, Billboard reported that an impressive 16 songs of the album’s 21 tracks charted in the Hot 100.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
23 July 2025
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Initially just the lead single for the group's second LP, the song quickly charted globally and became a staple track for nearly any Osbourne show, including his final concert earlier this month.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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Our collective gaze is often captivated by the promise of ever more sophisticated technology, computing power, political absurdity and financial might.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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This surge comes as data centers are drawn to Arizona's favorable operating costs and infrastructure, coupled with increasing demand for computing services.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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Applying results from that study and other research to the recent CBO estimate allowed Gaffney and other researchers to estimate specific effects of losing coverage.—
TOM MURPHY,
Arkansas Online,
2 Aug. 2025
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Economists have estimated the average U.S. tariff would leap from about 3% early this year to 15% to 20% and possibly higher, driving a key inflation measure from 2.8% to upwards of 3%.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Heading into the summer, Howe and the decision-makers at St James’ Park were surely plotting how to move forward again.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Reiko Matsumura, a Yolo County sheriff’s deputy, is named on property records for a home and farmland plotted beside her sister Tammy’s property, where the explosions took place.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
25 July 2025
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These have included, in recent years, NASA, whose OSIRIS-REx mission (2016-23) collected samples from the Bennu asteroid, which measures a third of a mile across and has been calculated to have a not infinitesimal chance of colliding with Earth in the twenty-second century.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The track’s owners and construction executives calculated what could be built in time for the Aug. 25 race: Temporary bleachers and red and white tents would replace the Post and Paddock Club.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
27 July 2025
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Challenge a good ol’ boy on a tractor to diagram a sentence and the reaction would likely amount to a short grunt.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
10 July 2025
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Andrew started diagramming the play and breaking it down.—
Bruce Arians,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The entire donation was deposited into the Jefferson County Education Foundation's account, and the nonprofit signed a memorandum of understanding with the district outlining how the funds should be spent over the course of five years.—
Krista Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
31 July 2025
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That proposal isn’t likely to trip up on the AI issue outlined above, but also could be easily evaded by companies moving their operations outside the city and basing their more highly compensated employees in, say, Evanston, Oak Park or any other suburb.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2025
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On moonless nights, trace its arc through the Summer Triangle stars high in the southeast and down to the galactic core near the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius in the south.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Inside, powerful exhibits trace Nantucket’s free Black community and its abolitionist movement with original pews, archival letters and multimedia panels.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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