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Recent Examples of pictogramShigetaka 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 Akkadian was written in cuneiform, a system invented by the Sumerians that involves engraving pictograms and symbols into clay with a reed stylus.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024 Nevertheless, Kurita’s pictograms bear little resemblance to modern emojis and were more akin to the Macintosh pictograms created by Susan Kare in 1984.—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024 The political history of the Olympic pictogram by Kim Hew-Low
This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers.—John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for pictogram
Also nearby is Castle Rocks State Park, another rock-climbing hotspot, where Native American pictographs and historic trails give visitors a sense of the area’s importance over time.
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Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
See the dwellings of ancient Native American civilizations on the Seven Hollows Trail, or take the Rock House Cave Trail to a natural shelter displaying pictographs that were left by the native inhabitants.
Marlena was called into truancy court by a letter that threatened jail or a $10,000 fine.
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Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
16 June 2025
As literacy expanded to new social strata, and new periodicals circulated among increasingly diverse publics, what letter writers could divulge and columnists could discuss changed.
Once Egyptologists determined what, say, a lion or hippopotamus hieroglyph meant on a temple wall, those hieroglyphs meant the same basic thing in prophecies, medical documents, and recipes.
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Sam Kean,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2025
From the pyramids to the mysteries of hieroglyphs and the afterlife, its legacy endures.
This erroneous belief that all Chinese characters are ideograms — symbols that express ideas directly, without language — remains widespread today in the West.
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Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.
Note the pink gold chronograph, Ref. 530, which is one of only about 140 examples produced (and only 30 in pink gold) and the rare Ref. 570 with a three-tone dial and applied Breguet numerals.
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Nancy Olson,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
People can make their own pope jerseys at the team store (some have even used Roman numerals for the XIV), but the team won’t be selling chintzy T-shirts or making the players wear City Connect cassocks.
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