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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

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

Soon after the plane diagram was couriered to Paddington Green, all Bayoumi's videos, including the footage of the paintballing, were taken from Birmingham to New Scotland Yard for copying.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

I pulled up my avatar’s inventory display, which appeared as a classic “paper doll” diagram of my avatar, onto which I could drag and drop various items and pieces of equipment.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“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

Patterns resembling Voronoi diagrams can often be seen in nature, including the markings on giraffes.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

In “How Black Music Took Over the World,” Mr. Gibbs uses clocklike diagrams to illustrate “many of the aspects of Black music that are hard to notice, or get hidden, using Western notation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Dad is dozing, a clipboard with notes and diagrams lying in his lap.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

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

“Causeway” is both thin and heavy-handed, its plot overly diagramed and its characters inadequately fleshed out.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

“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

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

Today’s diagrammed position comes from an 1898 game between two of the strongest players of the day — Russia’s Mikhail Chigorin and Germany’s Siegbert Tarrasch.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

He had diagrammed the wiring and the plumbing.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

Like most successful coaches, Smith was adept at diagraming plays on a blackboard.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 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

Unfortunately, while Cranston is painting in oils, his playwright is diagramming in stick figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

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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