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diagrammatic

[dahy-uh-gruh-mat-ik] / ˌdaɪ ə grəˈmæt ɪk /










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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

More problematic is the diagrammatic nature of the storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

One casts shadows, the other is flatter, more diagrammatic, with thread sewn into the canvas; a new proposition about the same thing.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022

Writing in The Times, Roberta Smith said his small ink drawings and gouaches “operate somewhere in the gap between William Wegman’s drolly captioned early drawings and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s acerbic diagrammatic images.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2021

The reader must remember that the valve shown in the section is only diagrammatic.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams


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