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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Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
If collaboration is key for you, Visio allows multiple users to work on diagrams simultaneously, making teamwork easier than ever.
—Carly Schnurr, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
The next morning Payton and the rest of the Broncos’ party asked Nix to diagram those reads and concepts on a board.
—Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
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Included in that application was a diagram of an inside zone run and a screenshot of Wisconsin’s 2019 game against Michigan when the Badgers had seven offensive linemen and two tight ends lined up at the goal line in front of tailback Jonathan Taylor.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
If collaboration is key for you, Visio allows multiple users to work on diagrams simultaneously, making teamwork easier than ever.
—Carly Schnurr, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
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Vision 2024 delivers advanced diagramming tools for any professional's toolbox.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2024
The next morning Payton and the rest of the Broncos’ party asked Nix to diagram those reads and concepts on a board.
—Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
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Photo illustration by Tsering Bista/NPR When journalist Conz Preti brought her three children to visit family in Argentina in 2022, her four-year-old son did something surprising.—
Julia Furlan,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2025
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After the illustrations were complete, Smith had a few Dreamers stand and introduce their super hero characters to the world.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
4 Apr. 2025
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That’s where Davis comes in: cataloging more and more types of coffee, searching for new genotypes, looking for resilient species that could be both used for crossbreeding sturdier hybrids and planted directly on farms as high-profit specialty coffees.—
Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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Six weeks into the new administration, Wayback Machine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration.—
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2025
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The museum charts a history of international solidarity with workers that started in Manchester and that has reverberated through political discourse ever since.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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Administrative tasks, charting and paperwork all contribute to clinician burnout.—
James Lindsey,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Jeff Rueter’s graphic of the weekend How did other U.S. players get on?—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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As seen in the graphic below, there’s also a host of regional banks set to report, providing a pulse on economic activity in different corners of the country.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2025
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One project is a collaboration that indexes theme parks and museums globally and estimates their annual attendance.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
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The effective tax rate is higher than the nominal one because gains aren’t indexed for inflation.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The music looped at least three times and fans didn’t get tired for a single solitary second.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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But this planet follows a unique trajectory—looping over the top and bottom of the star pair, more like a hula hoop being spun vertically rather than flat.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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That concept became the main source of inspiration for many of the visuals in the show.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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Invoking Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation firm that famously partners with Disney, Whittemore sort of blends the idea of branding visuals with model use in general.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The curriculum guides middle school students and teachers through building and evaluating computer vision models that can reliably classify fossil shark teeth.—
Christine Wusylko,
The Conversation,
9 Apr. 2025
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Kathleen Kelley Reardon, an expert on organizational politics, classifies political environments from minimally to pathologically politicized.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Diagram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diagram. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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