diagram
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In 2021, when questioned about it in court, Bayoumi said he had the diagram because he liked finding equations and could not remember when he had written it.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The FBI briefed the Met officers to question Bayoumi about the other high-priority exhibits, but the detectives in the custody suite were never given, or briefed about, the plane diagram.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
But the Venn diagram of people who will love Niles the crocodile and those who care what shoes Pete Davidson wears isn’t a circle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The book includes numerous photos of the Gadget in its final form, as well as a diagram of what scientists thought the mushroom cloud would look like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I showed her the pages I had written so far, with the diagram of the universe and the map of the street and the prime numbers.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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“Turns out we just have some paperwork to do and some diagrams but as everybody knows, I’m looking to move so I can be more educational and help more animals,” Blair wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
"Voronoi diagrams have been used for centuries in a variety of applications ranging from city planning to network design," Navlakha says.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
We also received an exhaustive tutorial in the history of taste and of restorations executed to respond to that taste, with helpful diagrams for each exhibited work indicating what was old and what was added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
As Monge’s student, Poncelet had learned the technique of projecting diagrams onto two planes, and as a prisoner of war he had a lot of spare time on his hands.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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They’ve been so good that offenses have diagramed plans around them, assigning double-teams and going above and beyond to neutralize them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Watch Purdy take the snap, forget what’s supposed to happen or how a play was diagramed, keep your eyes on the overachieving quarterback, and just hold your breath.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023
He was a coach with few rules, but players competed hard for him because he managed relationships as well as he diagramed plays.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
He diagramed the byzantine system that is the Harris County criminal-justice system, one of the nation’s largest, and a study in dysfunction.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2018
“We haven’t diagramed a single sentence all year. I’m getting worried about the College Boards.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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They diagrammed it for their BP sponsors as a big triangle beneath the rising line of future carbon emissions, what Socolow recalls describing as a “wedge,” cut up into equal-sized slices.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Later in the second, WSU diagrammed a rollout pass for Ward, whose receiver made Arbuckle look like a genius this time.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
You already have diagrammed some of the Mark Twain excerpt and know how plots move along.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Such diagrammed books are preferable for learning, Pandolfini said.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021
He had diagrammed the wiring and the plumbing.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Schmedding won’t be the only one diagraming plans to slow down that offense.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Willis said he’s had no problem diagraming plays — whether it be Liberty’s offense or the plays taught to him during the session.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Working with an illustrator, Rogen and Goldberg had completed what was in essence a digital flip book diagraming every scene in “Escape.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
I do a lot of diagraming stuff before I ever sit down with a computer.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
Oh, I see," Cleo replied, somewhat satisfied at the diagraming, "and our vacation out at Bellaire is to be a cross between a wedding and a trip to Europe.
From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis
On the upside, kids no longer have to spend hours of their wild and precious lives diagramming sentences.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
It’s much more than an exercise in diagramming a sentence.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
It was like he was diagramming the whole thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
This method of plot diagramming also helps you identify where holes may turn up in your plan.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
I tried hard to concentrate, tuning myself in to what the teacher was saying as she continued her discussion of diagramming sentences.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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