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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram] / ˈdaɪ əˌgræm /


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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

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

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

They were accustomed to having all the clues neatly laid out on a diagram placed in front of the exhibit.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

“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

In “The Sheep Detectives,” the woolly ungulates themselves set about solving a heinous crime: gathering evidence, bringing it to light, and even drawing diagrams to point dimwitted humans in the right direction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Half a dozen easels displayed hand-drawn diagrams for buildings and machines that looked like Leonardo da Vinci sketches.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

The 15-1 vote favors the “North of C-ID” option, just diagramed this winter, underground near the corner of Fourth Avenue and James Street.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 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

“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

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

She moved through our classroom as coolly as if Khesanh were just a proper noun in a sentence that needed to be diagrammed.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

It sits in an area that is dimly lit and very narrow and has a corporate-looking whiteboard parked in one corner, maybe in the event that something needs diagraming.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2015

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

In Mrs. Baker’s class, we drilled on sentence diagramming.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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