diagram
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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
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
A diagram showing the Earth positioned between the Sun and the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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 first was the old crayon drawing he’d made when he was seven years old - a diagram of a flying ship he’d seen in his dreams.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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And the inspiration that's likely to be important is actually real biological wiring diagrams.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“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
A large table stands in the middle, and taped to the walls are photographs, diagrams, and lists.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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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
But like the three brothers, these secondary figures are sociological composites, inserted into a carefully diagramed, ultimately incoherent narrative scheme.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
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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
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
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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
I do a lot of diagraming stuff before I ever sit down with a computer.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
The numbers proceed along one row aligned with the stones and along the other aligned with the gaps between them, diagraming sculpture as a series of solids and voids.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2013
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
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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