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 gold annual cycle is graphed below.
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Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
An elliptic curve has only two variables—x and y—so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
—Joseph Howlett, Wired News, 27 July 2025
The easy-to-handle tiles help toddlers recognize colors, number graphing, build patterns, and shape puzzles.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 10 July 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
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Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
An elliptic curve has only two variables—x and y—so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
—Joseph Howlett, Wired News, 27 July 2025
The easy-to-handle tiles help toddlers recognize colors, number graphing, build patterns, and shape puzzles.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 10 July 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
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In an existential crisis triggered by critical illness or its complications, how does anyone restore emotional balance, chart a return to hope, or move towards acceptance?—
K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Owned by the Moncler Group, the brand has been charting a course forward under CEO Robert Triefus, who joined in May 2023 from Gucci.—
Steve Salter,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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Kate Prouty, the chief information officer at Akamai Technologies, says workers at the cybersecurity and cloud computing company have developed a voracious appetite for artificial intelligence.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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So, this means that there is another major buyer out there looking to stand up significant data center computing power.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Humans aren’t very good at estimating meal components down to the gram, and measuring every mouthful of food requires intense devotion.—
Carrie Arnold,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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But calculations that took Starship Version 2’s performance into account estimated that figure could be far higher — perhaps requiring as many as 40 tankers, according to one former NASA official who spoke on condition of anonymity.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, star-crossed lovers Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Brian (Jamie Roy) managed to plot an escape of their own — but not before getting some major blood on their hands.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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While Witherspoon dug into the world of trauma surgery, Coben plotted the novel’s key moments.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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The National College Attainment Network, a nonprofit aimed at improving student access to higher education, has calculated each state's affordability gap for nearly a decade.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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Humana claimed in its lawsuit that the ratings were calculated unfairly, as they were based on a CMS test of its phone support for people with limited English proficiency.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified).—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Let’s start by outlining the situation that motivated inflation, what the idea of inflation is, and what the theory does (and doesn’t) predict, both generically and in gory detail.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
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Much of this momentum traces back to China’s DeepSeek, whose lean, low-cost models upended industry assumptions at the beginning of this year and kicked off a race to make AI smaller, faster, and smarter.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Multiple projects invite audiences as co-creators, from participatory explorations to decade-long digital archives, tracing how the internet evolved from a space of eager creativity and connection to one where humans have become commodified as product.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Graph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graph. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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