pictographic
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In the 1940s, Lam developed his own distinctive, hybrid figures, pictographic language and pictorial style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
On a map of the New World, Baniwa crosses out European place names and replaces Western pictographic symbolics with Indigenous ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Let’s just hope he finishes “Rusty Brown,” with all its pictographic poetry and transdimensional metaphysics, before 2037 rolls around.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
Television is adopting the pictographic one-liner format, but can this multimedia black hole go much deeper?
From Slate ● May 29, 2019
If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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