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pictograph

[pik-tuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


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Several years ago, I came across a pictograph depicting “A 100-Year Human Life in Months.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

More specifically, because I read some signs, I can tell you that the petroglyphs are more than 2,000 years old, and also that a petroglyph is cut into stone; a pictograph is painted on stone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

I’ve lost my appetite for cricket, so I tap on the pictograph of a lab-generated wrap produced from plant cells and lamb genes, then scan my hand.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022

As emojis come to represent the world more specifically and fully, they collide with the thorny reality that they reduce to a pictograph.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

As he drew his signature pictograph on the contract, Sylvie Davery sauntered in.

From Star Performer by Shea, Robert




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