diagrammatic

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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

“The Holdovers” is a flat, phony, painfully diagrammatic movie masquerading as a compassionate, humane one.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Check out diagrammatic paintings in Chelsea or Catharine Czudej’s fun house on the Upper East Side.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Note that this process is a diagrammatic version of the product rule.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

One hour of the Anatomy of Melancholy or of Urn Burial could always transform the pattern of the terra-cotta wall paper to some diagrammatic significance.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton