pictogram

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Recent Examples of pictogram Labels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats. 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 See All Example Sentences for pictogram
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictogram
Noun
  • Carvalho’s resignation letter focused on accomplishments.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • Your letter reminds me of the resourcefulness and the breadth of experience that many funeral directors have.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Our morning canoe run was to be only a quick look at promising pictograph locations on the main arm of Missinaibi.
    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
Noun
  • Some examples took more direct cues—such as the collectible Egyptian Pattern bracelets and brooches similar to 1924 examples depicting hieroglyphs.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
  • Pieces of papyrus or stone, with hieroglyphs sometimes incomplete, were recreated as a precious trio of clips, each with Fragment in their name.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Washington Post reported the numerals were already visible on Tuesday.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 12 June 2026
  • The heel also includes a unique detail in its branding, which is expected to spell out Jordan’s number, 23, in Roman numerals across the left and right shoes.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • As zonky cross-generational ciphers go, the group’s debut, Strictly 4 the Scythe, is no Hypnotize Camp Posse, the amalgam of Three 6 Mafia and a grip of artists signed to their Hypnotize Minds label in the early 2000s.
    Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026

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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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