pictogram

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Recent Examples of pictogram Nevertheless, Kurita’s pictograms bear little resemblance to modern emojis and were more akin to the Macintosh pictograms created by Susan Kare in 1984. Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024 The political history of the Olympic pictogram by Kim Hew-Low This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Each card has a point value and a pictogram that tells you which tiles on the board the card affects relative to its position. Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024 Even a page with some lousy pictograms and mangled text that reads like it's been run through a translation tool three or four times would have been helpful. Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for pictogram 
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Noun
  • Hang out at the famous black sand beach or meander the six miles of trails through ancient sites and pictographs.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Understanding that motifs from seals are directly related to the pictographs that would eventually lay the foundation for the first writing system shows how meaning was transferred from motifs to script, the study authors said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Shortly after mailing the letter, he was shot dead on the street by Argentine security services.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The letter requested a formal investigation into the flights, clear communication to officials and an implementation of preventative measures to tackle unsafe drone operations.
    Sophia Pargas, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Eventually, Proto-Sinaitic script, which transformed some hieroglyphs into alphabetic letters, emerged in the Sinai Peninsula around 1900 B.C.E. Scholars have long thought that this was when the alphabet was invented, as Schwartz says in a statement.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The entrance was decorated with reliefs and hieroglyphs depicting Repyt; a door frame on the opposite side depicts the fertility god Min alongside two rarely shown decans, or stars that measure the passage of time at night, as well as a falcon and ibis heads.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • And as a sign of the ideogram’s lasting appeal, Hadid was photographed in New York City earlier this week wearing a cropped T-shirt with the yellow icon — albeit the brand was unknown.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 11 July 2024
Noun
  • Angel numbers don't always have to be numerals, Wilder adds.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The Arabic numerals are cleanly delineated, while the chapter ring is delicately drawn, with slightly thicker five-minute markers.
    Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Editor’s picks For decades, Patricia McGlone was a cipher, a ghost.
    Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
  • In one instance, the shipping container was a puzzle box, which looked like a cipher, and held 10 switches, according to court records.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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