as in illustration
something that visually explains or decorates a text
the explanation of the process of photosynthesis is accompanied by a very useful diagram
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Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
The first used Feynman diagrams, squiggly-line drawings that describe how particles move and interact.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Each place where one strand passes over another in a knot diagram is called a crossing.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
One big advantage of this tool is that the mathematical operations describing the forces between particles can be visualized as diagrams.
—Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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Coloring Concepts approaches that possibility through a kinesthetic design, words, and diagrams that invite the user to trace, label, and then color.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
The first used Feynman diagrams, squiggly-line drawings that describe how particles move and interact.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Each place where one strand passes over another in a knot diagram is called a crossing.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
One big advantage of this tool is that the mathematical operations describing the forces between particles can be visualized as diagrams.
—Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diagram
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This material is for illustration and discussion purposes and not intended to be, nor construed as, financial, legal, tax or investment advice.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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These illustrations offer a closer look at what’s been completed so far and what’s still to come.—
Neil Nakahodo,
Kansas City Star,
25 Oct. 2025
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The whales are identified by unique natural markings and catalogued in a collection the center maintains of more than 2 million photos dating back to 1935.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Three years later, in 2023, the task force produced a 1,060-page report that catalogued California’s discriminatory treatment of Black people after its 1850 admission as a state that officially prohibited slavery.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Several songs from the soundtrack are charting on the Hot 100.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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The soundtrack became the first ever in Billboard history to have four songs simultaneously chart on the Billboard Top 10.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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Yes, here is a handy graphic of the CNN stream schedule.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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This example of the street-legal speed machine is finished in yellow topped with black graphics and comes equipped with Porsche’s high-performance Weissach package.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI’s trajectory mirrors the rise of Google parent Alphabet, which built its business around indexing the web and now has a foothold in everything from consumer tech devices to health research.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Social security is also indexed to inflation.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Trails will loop through the park and its open areas, connecting with the nearby Crossings municipal golf course and adjacent neighborhoods.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The most common place to loop the strap through is on a side slot if the case has one.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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The music video attracted significant attention both for its humorous visuals—superimposing the artists’ faces onto babies' bodies—and for its content, which challenges stereotypes about older artists in hip-hop.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Claudia Leonardi, whose visuals featured on Life is Strange, is illustrating.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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What Happens Next Both the Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball classify the New Hampshire Senate race as Leans Democrat.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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MacKinnon had a game-high eight shots on goal, including at least two that can only be classified as great saves by Vejmelka.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Diagram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diagram. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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