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a pictorial character used in hieroglyphics
The statue had an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Recent Examples of hieroglyphic
Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2025
The museum, set on an 11-acre campus, will feature pieces showing how humans have used art to tell stories throughout history, including comics, sketches, murals, paintings, hieroglyphics, sculptures, movie props and costumes, and more.
—Kristen Taketa, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets suggest pigeons were domesticated as early as 5,000 years ago, and hieroglyphic evidence suggests the Ancient Egyptians used them as messengers.
—Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2025
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Noun
This Zamalek store is light-filled and packed with table linens, bedding, and accessories hand-embroidered with palm trees, pyramids, and hieroglyphics.
—Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2025
The museum, set on an 11-acre campus, will feature pieces showing how humans have used art to tell stories throughout history, including comics, sketches, murals, paintings, hieroglyphics, sculptures, movie props and costumes, and more.
—Kristen Taketa, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Adjective
Below, 30 lines of hieroglyphic text are engraved in the stone.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets suggest pigeons were domesticated as early as 5,000 years ago, and hieroglyphic evidence suggests the Ancient Egyptians used them as messengers.
—Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hieroglyphic
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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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The permanent layoff of approximately 300 workers at the Searles Valley Minerals Trona plant will have an incomprehensible impact on our High Desert communities.—
Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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If not for the frame of the goal and an incomprehensible Riccardo Califiori block, the outlook of the game could have been very different going into the break.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The cans, which feature her likeness, come in fruity flavors like peach and raspberry.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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Ellison reportedly helped the University of Michigan fund a name, image, and likeness sports package to poach quarterback recruit Bryce Underwood from Louisiana State University in November 2024.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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In addition to learning more about the karsts' mysterious ecosystems, the biodiversity study aimed to advocate for their conservation.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Per the official logline, School Spirits is centered around Maddie, a teen girl stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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Named after its founder, Italian art collector and writer Achille Bertarelli, the collection comprises different iconographic materials, estimated to be around 1 million pieces, including maps, posters, ex libris, postcards, ancient and modern art graphics, as well as architects’ archives.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
16 Jan. 2026
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Brasilia Iconography Views, maps, and plans from iconographic, cartographic, and architectural archives of Brazil’s Federal District and its capital city, Brasilia.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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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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More puzzling, critics said, has been the union’s response to other farmworker advocates.—
Marcos Breton,
Sacbee.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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On the flip side, Orlando has been a puzzling disappointment, a team — just like the Heat — that has followed a seven-game winning streak with an ongoing five-game losing streak.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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His 120 illustrations are colorful, sometimes combining nature photography with Walden’s original creations to form detailed settings.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
28 Mar. 2026
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Before the three scientists’ work, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans were largely abstract animals to most people – zoo exhibits, textbook illustrations, evolutionary symbols.—
Mireya Mayor,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Hieroglyphic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hieroglyphic. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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