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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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Noun

The subpoenas request any documents and communications related to letters sent in July and October by federal officials to state election officials outlining the allegations about noncitizen voters.

— Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026
In all capital letters, deputes are warned not to drive the wrong way to chase someone.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 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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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

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His query was earnestly tackled by the engineers at the RAND Corporation, who, in 1955, published a book composed only of a series of unrelated numerals piled up in neat rows.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
This chronograph has its retailer signature from Verga in Milan intact and its champagne dial rcomes with distinctive Arabic numerals and tachymeter scale.

— Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026

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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

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