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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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  1. letter
  2. pictograph
  3. hieroglyph
  4. ideogram
  5. numeral
  6. cipher
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  • Haitians in Springfield were among the first to receive ICE check-in letters after TPS ended and many were fitted with ankle monitors, the Miami Herald reported.
    — Lauren Costantino September 19, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Critics of Prop 40 have also warned California’s levy is unlikely to be a one-time deal, and the letter sees a similar levy on billionaires elsewhere.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of letter
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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
Noun
  • Simple in shape, being straight, these trumpets have remarkable embellishments depicting Egyptian gods and hieroglyphs.
    — Kara Rogers, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Sep. 2026
  • 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
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
Noun
  • The league, titled after the Roman numerals for 54 and offering a $54 million bonus if anyone ever shot 54, has nothing left tied to the number.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Their kindergarten lesson plan will likely include counting, number recognition, writing numerals, simple math facts, and identifying shapes.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of numeral
Noun
  • There’s that vibrancy and, on the other side of the ledger, dead boys, ciphers, unfinished or unfinishable quests.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of cipher

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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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