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Labels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats.
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Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
America’s most popular airline routes (by Melvin Backman) SURPRISING DISCOVERIES
Fifty years ago this weekend, scientists radioed a distant cluster of stars a pictogram using binary code.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 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
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Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
America’s most popular airline routes (by Melvin Backman) SURPRISING DISCOVERIES
Fifty years ago this weekend, scientists radioed a distant cluster of stars a pictogram using binary code.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictogram
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When asked by the Herald how much the new policy is expected to cost Massachusetts ratepayers compared to traditional oil, propane and natural gas, MassDEP Communications Director Lauren Moreschi referred to the state website and the December letter to stakeholders.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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Restorative justice programs bring together survivors and offenders — via meetings or letters or through community panels — to try to deepen understanding, promote healing and discuss how best to make amends for a wide range of harms.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
13 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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Go for a stroll on the water line at night or early morning and hopefully tracks will present themselves, flipper marks and a solid line for the shell, like hieroglyphs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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In the Nile Valley there are hieroglyphs galore that signify weather systems; and, being invisible and inexplicable, wind is denoted by its effect rather than its reality.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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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
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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.—
Lauren Collins,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2024
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This season, the introduction of the Heritage 1917 pays homage to one of Movado’s earliest archival designs—defined by its refined square case, vintage numerals and artful balance of form and function.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
14 Nov. 2025
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Just a day before the auction, internet sleuth Perezcope, published an instagram post suggesting the hard enamel had been recessed, while pointing out discrepancies in the numerals and so on.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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Like Dostoyevsky, Capote doesn’t portray his killers as demonic ciphers, instead capturing their messy complexity.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Two streetlamps engaged in a mute but luminous dialogue, an indecipherable Morse code, alluding to the silent exchanges and secret ciphers of strangers who meet there for their trysts.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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