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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram] / ˈdaɪ əˌgræm /


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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

No known natural stars occupy that region of the H-R diagram.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

To me, it seemed Paul found love at the center of a Venn diagram, with someone who didn’t mind when Paul wanted to spend time at the other end of his individual circle.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

The diagram shows the basis of the 18% figure, as well as one showing 46% chunk of jobs will see less immediate change:

From MarketWatch Apr. 17, 2026

Unlike the orbits of Mercury and Mars, the orbits of the other planets depart so little from circularity that we cannot make out their true shapes even in an extremely accurate diagram.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“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

Such spaces also enabled authors to create diagrams and maps in which clues could be hidden.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

She looked for diagrams of her own body, and for maps of the area, and for any news that might help her escape.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

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

Montefiore helps out with diagramed family trees and a cast of characters before each section of the book.

From Seattle Times Jul. 10, 2016

“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

Forget the stodgy days of X’s and O’s diagrammed in the playbook.

From Seattle Times Jul. 27, 2022

You already have diagrammed some of the Mark Twain excerpt and know how plots move along.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

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

When one of his gently unfolding pastoral melodies takes a turn into dissonant thickets, it can sound as if Ives is diagraming the American landscape — geographically and psychologically.

From New York Times May 21, 2020

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

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

Especially English when we’re discussing stories, instead of diagramming sentences.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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