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pictogram

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Recent Examples of pictogram But decoding the pictograms could be a culturally and historically significant task. — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025 Labels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats. — Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 The Indus Valley people carved about 400 symbols into stone seals—some animal pictograms, others abstract shapes. — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 Shigetaka Kurita’s icons were monochromatic pixel pictograms, which Nicolas Loufrani describes as incredibly smart and beautiful representations of concepts on a limited 12 x 12 dot canvas. — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for pictogram

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Sandy Carter The letter now carries 50, exactly twice as many.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
But lab testing for cyclospora is complex, as the FDA acknowledged in a warning letter to Fresh Express.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 25 July 2026

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Reports of pictographs — American Indian picture writing — had attracted us to Missinaibi’s shores.

— Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
Each group has left its mark, from ancient cave dwellings to petroglyphs and pictographs etched into the canyon walls.

— Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of pictograph

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In addition to hieroglyph texts, the interior walls feature murals depicting portraits of seated and kneeling figures, and archaeological evidence of papermaking tools.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
Some examples took more direct cues—such as the collectible Egyptian Pattern bracelets and brooches similar to 1924 examples depicting hieroglyphs.

— Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 June 2026

Definition of hieroglyph

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That shape, whose contour resembles both an indecipherable ideogram and a flat asymmetrical spaceship, shows Parsons’s inventive side.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026
This erroneous belief that all Chinese characters are ideograms — symbols that express ideas directly, without language — remains widespread today in the West.

— Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025

Definition of ideogram

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The bicentennial was the moment of nostalgic gluttony that topped them all, with its reenactment of battles, its old-fashioned sailing ships, and its outpouring of sappy patriotic products printed with the magic numerals 76.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
By first and second grade, problems become more symbolic, are presented verbally and use numerals.

— Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

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But in my view, our relationships to animals, whose lives are untouched by the existential woes and artifices of personhood, are the richest and most evident ciphers for our own often inscrutable psyches.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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