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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram] / ˈdaɪ əˌgræm /


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Later, though, a player will diagram an attack while likening it to a football play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Guests will also receive a zine-style pamphlet with the same homespun appeal explaining each of the eight sections in RM’s words alongside a diagram of the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

Occasionally Sherm circled something on his diagram, or wrote a question to himself.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

“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

His job was to prove that Dreyfus’s handwriting matched the incriminating note, and he took the stand with a bewildering display of charts and pseudoscientific diagrams.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

There’s the stately, even pace of the clauses, like a sentence diagramed by a tweedy lecturer; the stuffy hyperbole of “Cretaceous period”; the little fluff of emphatic plumage in “extravagantly.”

From New York Times ● May 16, 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

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

The shift in attitude hasn’t been firmly diagrammed; instead, what’s going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

Forget the stodgy days of X’s and O’s diagrammed in the playbook.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

You already have diagrammed some of the Mark Twain excerpt and know how plots move along.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The Stephanides family tree, diagrammed in Dr. Luce’s “Autosomal Transmission of Recessive Traits,” goes into more detail than I think you would care to know about.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

But you could also write her legacy just by diagraming her coaching tree, and that version might be even more impressive.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2017

By fifth grade, he was watching games with a notepad on his lap, diagraming plays.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2012

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

Watching film and diagramming plays deep into the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Breaking through creative roadblocks can be challenging, but Isaac and Karen trade tricks, such as diagramming passages of your favorite writing and inventing weird rules to find a voice that fits your work.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2022

We went back to diagramming sentences, focusing on the imperfect tenses.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt


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