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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The easy-to-handle tiles help toddlers recognize colors, number graphing, build patterns, and shape puzzles.
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Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 10 July 2025
With something called the forest matrix: In 2014, the Parks Department divided its natural areas into 1,156 plots and graphed the conditions in each one, with forest health on the vertical axis, ecological threat on the horizontal.
—Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
The benchmarks are content recommendation, large language model pretraining, large language model fine-tuning, object detection for machine vision applications, image generation, and graph node classification for applications such as fraud detection and drug discovery.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
An elliptic curve has only two variables — x and y — so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2025
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Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 10 July 2025
With something called the forest matrix: In 2014, the Parks Department divided its natural areas into 1,156 plots and graphed the conditions in each one, with forest health on the vertical axis, ecological threat on the horizontal.
—Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
The benchmarks are content recommendation, large language model pretraining, large language model fine-tuning, object detection for machine vision applications, image generation, and graph node classification for applications such as fraud detection and drug discovery.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
An elliptic curve has only two variables — x and y — so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2025
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One of the Week’s Top Debuts Adams earned the third-highest debut of the week on the Official Albums chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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By blending athlete-like stamina with surgeon-level dexterity, KAERI is charting a path toward robotic first responders capable of tackling nuclear, disaster, and industrial challenges with unmatched safety.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Amazon started out as an online bookstore (1994) and became an e-commerce juggernaut and cloud computing giant.—
Julia Dhar,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That electric forecast was powered by Oracle’s emergence as a key provider of infrastructure that powers AI companies’ enormous demands for computing power – Oracle’s bread and butter as a cloud services and database software provider.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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The department is working with University of Arizona researchers to develop statistical models to better estimate numbers.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics today issued a revision of its employment numbers for the twelve months between April of 2024 and March of 2025, showing more than nine hundred thousand fewer new jobs than originally estimated.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Its director, and franchise mastermind, Rian Johnson has proven himself a master of the whodunnit form with these films, showing a knack for Agatha Christie puzzle-plotting that, well, the actual adapters of Christie haven’t shown in recent years.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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Unlike navigating on a flat map using Euclidean geometry, aeronautical navigation requires solving complex problems by calculating position and plotting courses on a model of the Earth as an ellipsoid, or a sphere.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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That asymmetry matters when calculating total cost and complexity.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement The period piece presents the sisters as calculating and strategic, yet brutal in their enforcement of control.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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As a result of the one-off costs, the company said its now expect full-year operating profit growth of 4% to 10% at constant exchange rates, down from the 10% to 16% outlined in its second-quarter results in August.—
Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Everyday Health follows strict sourcing guidelines to ensure the accuracy of its content, outlined in our editorial policy.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The chaos can be traced back to Macron’s dramatic decision to call a snap poll last year.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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The House bill would be eliminating an agency that’s officially been around since 1999 but can trace its roots all the way back to 1968.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Graph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graph. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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