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Recent Examples of logogramCuneiform became syllabic, repurposing its logograms, or word symbols, as sounds.—Longreads, 1 July 2025 Most interestingly, many of the artists used logograms (a symbol to represent a word) rooted in the use of homophones.—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
Initially used to track agricultural trade and taxes, early pictographs evolved into cuneiform—a sophisticated system of record-keeping.
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Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
But before this, some of the brightest Chinese minds of the 20th century had to figure out a way to harness the complex pictographs that make up written Chinese into a typewriter, and later, a computer.
Flags of Finnish air forces that still show the swastika symbol are seen during a parade in Jyvaskyla, Finland, in November 2024—the military branch's command dropped the insignia in 2017.
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Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
An insignia on the ring turns out to be the logo of the Four-Way Temple, a house of worship, in the nearby city of Bakersfield, California.
Lisa also wore a pair of black tights emblazoned with the Louis Vuitton logo.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Uncle Herschel, the seated oldster in Cracker Barrel’s iconic logo, is not only a character from corporate lore, the founder’s real-life uncle, but a representative, even an aspirational, figure for a certain kind of American.
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Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Diamond Pattern The diamond pattern has been present in Japanese art since the ancient times, and is also the motif of the Okura family crest.
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Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
The centuries-old existing state seal has drawn controversy for portraying an indigenous person on a shield, with a crest above containing an arm holding a shield.
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State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
30 Aug. 2025
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