ideographs

plural of ideograph

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideographs
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
  • The glass, etched with descriptions in Greek and hieroglyphics, was a foundation plate that said the temple was dedicated to the goddess Isis.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While North Korean state media released text accounts of the parade Saturday morning, pictures and video of the event were expected to be released later in the day.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Inside, police found copper wire, rope and pictures of the missing women.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even they’re relegated to little more than supporting players and symbolic representations of troubled youth straight out of a BBC kitchen-sink passion play.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The algorithm also feeds the unmasked frames in their entirety into encoder 2, which converts them into another set of latent representations.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This article discusses Ed Gein’s crimes, as well as transphobic depictions of them on screen.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Many conservative critics appear to have homed in on its depictions of the latter with the most myopic lens possible.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Some of these ancient microbes show strong resemblances to modern pathogens.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Ideographs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideographs. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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