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Recent Examples of pictogram
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
Noun
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Over the course of a year, Juri had made strides in recognizing letters, sounds and sight words.—
MAKIYA SEMINERA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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That is if the letter writer doesn’t mind allowing them in her backyard for a few weeks while others find more reasonable ways to address this problem.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Feb. 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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The black dial shows off Roman numerals on the top half and Arabic numerals on the bottom, a distinct look designed to be legible even in dark conditions thanks to that contrast.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2026
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On the reverse side, there are symbols and dates in Roman numerals corresponding to each sign of the zodiac.—
Micaela English,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2026
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The still-unidentified Zodiac Killer, who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s, frequently sent threats, demands and ciphers to multiple local papers — namely the San Francisco Chronicle.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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