logogram

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Recent Examples of logogram Cuneiform 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for logogram
Noun
  • Microsoft is also a partner, purchasing the Scope 3 attributes of SAF to decarbonize employee travel.
    Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The slaw’s red color is a tell-tale attribute, but so is the texture.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Initially used to track agricultural trade and taxes, early pictographs evolved into cuneiform—a sophisticated system of record-keeping.
    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.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the 1980s, Armani suits became a power symbol for American businessmen thanks in part to the brand’s prominence in pop culture.
    Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But the rush to make sense of the shooting based on these messages and symbols is misguided.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile other versions such as the Louis Vuitton Horizon 55 monogram empreinte leather are going for $5,250.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Each lipstick bullet is stamped with the iconic LV monogram, and features the signature monogram flower on the cap.
    Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Lisa also wore a pair of black tights emblazoned with the Louis Vuitton logo.
    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.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    State House News Service, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Logogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logogram. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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