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a pictorial character used in hieroglyphics
A tomb inscribed with hieroglyphs.
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Recent Examples of hieroglyph
The same message in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek allowed researchers to decode the images as language, but the new discovery is a bit different.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2025
Their antecedents are ancient (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Mesoamerican pictograms), though the journey from their modern birthplace (Japan circa the turn of the millennium) to their current ubiquity has been quick.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
His versatility to play inside and outside along with the potential to run a plethora of route combinations with Lamb could be like deciphering an ancient hieroglyph for opposing defenses.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2025
Their antecedents are ancient (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Mesoamerican pictograms), though the journey from their modern birthplace (Japan circa the turn of the millennium) to their current ubiquity has been quick.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
His versatility to play inside and outside along with the potential to run a plethora of route combinations with Lamb could be like deciphering an ancient hieroglyph for opposing defenses.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hieroglyph
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Fatalities data, the group says, is based on a range of sources, including sources among medical workers, publicly available images and official statements.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Whereas the intimate, snapshot-style images call us to bask in the anachronistic warmth of the analog, the profane photographs beckon toward the messy pleasures of the body.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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By 2 payouts and previous drawings here.—
USA Today staff,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Loose, gestural ink drawings sit alongside still lifes of treasured objects, flea market finds are arranged like miniature stage sets, and candid snapshots of her Milan existence are collaged with painterly abandon.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
24 Mar. 2026
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Regardless of how anyone might have felt about the new picture that Einstein’s greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, brought along with it, the behavior of physical phenomena in the Universe doesn’t lie.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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The preliminary visa data helps paint a fuller picture of immigration declines in the United States.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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That family portrait is so weird!—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
27 Mar. 2026
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Along with the album cover, the shared a new black and white portrait of himself, captured by daughter Mary McCartney.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The etchings had been in the family for roughly a century.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
27 Feb. 2026
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The first-floor bedroom is now a cozy den with dark navy blue walls, dog etchings by French artist Leon D’anchin and the Hermès dog plates, and an attached bathroom is decorated with Scalamandré’s famous prancing zebra pattern wallpaper.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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The twenty-four-hour temperature forecast is shown as a fluctuating black line tagged with icons denoting the weather every three hours.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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Designed by pioneering Modernist architect Richard Neutra in 1928, with limited collaboration from another Modernist icon, Rudolph Schindler, the Jardinette Apartments had been hiding in plain sight on an unassuming Hollywood street for nearly a century.—
Sam Lubell,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Hieroglyph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hieroglyph. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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