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Recent Examples of pictographVisitors should allow plenty of daylight hours to find and view the artwork, including some petroglyphs and pictographs that can only be viewed after a short walk.—Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026 Arabic is the outcome of centuries of trade, innovation and communication, never letting go of the beauty of symbols, pictographs and glyphs.—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Not For Radio and Suki Waterhouse were among those teased early via pictographs on Lollapalooza social media accounts.—Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 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
Established on November 11, 1926, Route 66 stretched more than 2,400 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, becoming a symbol of opportunity, mobility and the American dream.
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Daily News,
Daily News,
9 June 2026
Chestnuts bloom in these graceful, long pine-tree shapes, which look like a symbol of something.
The winning numbers for Tuesday’s Mega Millions lottery drawing are 9, 30, 36, 38 and 40.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Paired with the print is a letter from a young woman named Harriet Bailey to her uncle on the front lines of the Civil War, containing seeds delicately etched with drawings of a ship, facesand a dog.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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.
Sybil, who spent her younger years beleaguered by the presence of her double, that emblem of feminine conformity named Désirée, never manages to perceive herself as anything but abnormal by comparison.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
References to nomads of the Kazakh steppe and local symbolism abound in the label, as seen in the heavy glass bottles recalling nomads’ flasks and decorated with handmade pendants in the form of old coins engraved with the emblem of each fragrance.
The hallway to the field has a blue-and-yellow logo of the United States, which is co-hosting the World Cup with Mexico and Canada.
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Pete Grathoff
June 8,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
Kalshi’s logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface, with a blurry betting curve projected in the background in Creteil, France, on March 9, 2026, during a major scandal and $54 million lawsuit concerning bets related to recent strikes in Iran.