ideograms

plural of ideogram

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Noun
  • Crucially, these dates correspond to important dynastic events that the hieroglyphs omit — filling in the puzzle pieces scholars had been missing.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The same message in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek allowed researchers to decode the images as language, but the new discovery is a bit different.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plumage has been in fashion since ancient Egypt, when ostrich feathers were used to decorate fans and even appeared in hieroglyphics.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • For its research, the gallery relies on a vast collection of auction catalogues and sales documents dating back decades, and also has scientists, academics and Egyptologists on call to help with examining objects and translating hieroglyphics.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.
    Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Interpretation treats literature as a set of symbols, or in other words, representations.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
  • These narrow, often negative or humorous stereotypes have helped to set the visual schema for rural life, governing popular representations of individuals, families, and relationships in these communities.
    William Jones, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gone are the incisive and artful depictions of young people from the Asian and Latina women photographers laid off today.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • As with work, depictions of leisure are predominantly set outdoors, and often as solo endeavors.
    William Jones, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Floods, tricksters, battles with monsters, creation and apocalypse—sometimes the resemblances are uncanny.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Further investigation into a chalk underdrawing of ‘The Night Watch,’ using macro X-ray florescence scans, showed even more resemblances between the two dogs.
    Senay Boztas, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are notebooks covered in Paulsen’s thin scrawl and play drawings everywhere.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Winning Triple Twist numbers 03-08-11-13-22-32 Check Triple Twist payouts and previous drawings here.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Ideograms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideograms. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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