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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideograms
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Go for a stroll on the water line at night or early morning and hopefully tracks will present themselves, flipper marks and a solid line for the shell, like hieroglyphs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026 -
In the Nile Valley there are hieroglyphs galore that signify weather systems; and, being invisible and inexplicable, wind is denoted by its effect rather than its reality.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Egyptian hieroglyphics indicate that the art of sugar confectionery was established at least 3,000 years ago.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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For most of your predecessors, pitching was like reading hieroglyphics.—
Kevin Sherrington
Feb. 25,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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In comparison, the Jewel Changi Airport shopping mall has been truly embraced as a travel destination, with visitors flocking to its extremely Instagramable artificial waterfall to take pictures.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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But Hanna has gotten some great pictures, starting with that epic shot of closer Lucas Erceg in April.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2026
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Those standardized representations present exactly the kind of common question — did FIFA mislead consumers about what Category 1 meant?—
Corey Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Unfortunately, people have a profound tendency to confuse representations with reality, a mistake called reification.—
Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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For all the prior cinematic depictions of storming bunkers and camaraderie under fire, Pressure offers us the quiet heroism of rational restraint in the figure of James Stagg, who weathered his inner storms and bore the courage to be disliked.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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In this way, the film offers one of the most unique and realistic depictions of a famous historical battle ever put to screen.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
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Most of the film’s other resemblances, of which there are many, prove less distressing.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2026
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The market cadence of the past few months has some uncomfortable resemblances to the early 2025 path leading up to that tariff-panic crescendo.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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Nearby, an oversize atlas bears drawings of the earthquake’s activity created by pendulums.—
Sneha Dhandapani,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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And the pièce de résistance of the room, by far, though also the hardest to spot, are original drawings of showgirls by the one and only Bob Mackie, who also had a cameo on the show earlier this season.—
Rachel Wallace,
Architectural Digest,
29 May 2026
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“Ideograms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideograms. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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