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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideographs
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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 -
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
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The act of introspection to realize a physical object stemmed from the development of Narici’s own wedding bands, which included stylized symbolic glyphs that evoked hieroglyphics.—
Kathy Lee,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 2025
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The imposing exterior is covered in hieroglyphics and pyramid-inspired design elements, while the doors open into an enormous atrium that houses a 3,200-year-old statue of King Rameses II standing the II, standing 36 ft (11 m) tall.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Nov. 2025
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American strikes destroyed what appears to be drinking water infrastructureon Iran’s southern coast early Wednesday, according to videos and pictures shared by Iranian media and geolocated by NBC News.—
Sarah Dean,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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The festival Thursday had a family-friendly vibe, with everyone taking pictures and enjoying time together, said Maria Botchatcher.—
Zuri Primos
June 11,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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Another common technique is simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which continuously builds and updates three-dimensional representations of the environment while tracking the robot's position within them.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 June 2026
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The King and Queen Camilla, 78, viewed visual representations of how technological innovation is transforming cancer research, and the palace gathering launched the organization's 125th anniversary year.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Deepfakes have been a constant presence in the AI age as large-language models have made generating depictions of actors, singers and other celebrities much more accessible to the public.—
Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Yes, other Hollywood depictions of the future had predicted similar technology over the years, but guess what year Apple overlord Steve Jobs announced the breakthrough videotelephony product known as FaceTime?—
Dan Snierson,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
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For all the resemblances between the ancient incarceration system and our own, the differences are real.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
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But outside of a few passing resemblances, the new comet, which likely originated from the edge of our solar system, appears to share no direct connection with 3I/ATLAS.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Ideographs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideographs. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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