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Recent Examples of pictographThings to Do in Big Bend National Park Big Bend National Park has it all—vast amounts of open space, rivers, canyons, pictographs, and hot springs.—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2026 Don't miss these Knowledge transmission Archeologists study ancient rock art, which includes paintings on rock (pictographs) or peckings in rock (petroglyphs) to learn about the cultures of ancient peoples.—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 28 Nov. 2025 Another nearby point of interest for history buffs is Historic Blenheim and Civil War Interpretive Center, a Greek Revival-style house dating to 1859 that preserves signatures and pictographs from Federal soldiers who once lived there.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025 Also available on demand are local wildlife guides and even an archaeologist to help find arrowheads and pinpoint the extraordinary petroglyphs and pictographs scattered around the property.—Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2020 See All Example Sentences for pictograph
Even Luke Skywalker dons a pair of beige Levi’s—transformed from a miner’s uniform into a symbol of rebellious cool by the likes of James Dean—to blend in with the desert sands of Tatooine, a former mining outpost.
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Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Irises are a symbol of courage and hope—and Van Gogh’s masterpiece evokes vitality, decay, and the cycle of life itself.
Exploding in popularity as digital chatting caught on—an ascent that accelerated when Apple, Google, and their fellow behemoths became emoji adopters—the pictograms acknowledged no national boundaries.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2025
But decoding the pictograms could be a culturally and historically significant task.
According to British Vogue, the designer is said to have created the dress as a nod to France, with national flowers and bees — the emblem of Napoleon — embroidered on the skirt.
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Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
The Fashion Nova baddie in horizontal sprawl off the Vertigo, for example, is an emblem for those in the know.
Theater blogs and Reddit pages have been mulling the sudden appearance this week in the Broadway theater district of two posters bearing a blue star image that resembles the logo used by the Evita London production and on the Evita Instagram page.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2026
Before the crowd split into teams, one person from each group donned an orange safety vest emblazoned with the logo of BrightView, the landscaping firm that does trash collection downtown.
The painting may be the first appearance in art of the American doctrine of Manifest Destiny, a term coined the year before by the newspaperman and diplomat John O’Sullivan.
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Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Over the years, J&J became known as a relaxed hangout near the city art museums and a popular stopover for cowboys during the Stock Show and Rodeo.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 May 2026