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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram] / ˈdaɪ əˌgræm /


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Later, though, a player will diagram an attack while likening it to a football play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Guests will also receive a zine-style pamphlet with the same homespun appeal explaining each of the eight sections in RM’s words alongside a diagram of the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Commission never saw the plane diagram, the paintballing video, written evidence of Bayoumi's alleged extremism, or much of the rest of the evidence the Met Police had seized.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Some messages included an elaborate diagram of a cooling device and the offer to set it up in the president's room.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

“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

Collina believes it is hugely important to use real scenarios, not just dossiers and diagrams.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

No need to untangle the complex hypocrisy here — it’s all laid out in arrows and diagrams.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Alongside the 2004 guidance sit two diagrams demonstrating the overhead and outward reach of an average older woman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

This is very difficult to show clearly in a diagram, so most diagrams, even diagrams of sound waves, show transverse waves.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

The 15-1 vote favors the “North of C-ID” option, just diagramed this winter, underground near the corner of Fourth Avenue and James Street.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 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

But like the three brothers, these secondary figures are sociological composites, inserted into a carefully diagramed, ultimately incoherent narrative scheme.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

“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

Later in the second, WSU diagrammed a rollout pass for Ward, whose receiver made Arbuckle look like a genius this time.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

He came and diagrammed a few sentences for her.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

A senior animal keeper, Nicole Ethier, gave out marching orders like a football coach diagraming a complicated play.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2018

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

Watching film and diagramming plays deep into the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

This method of plot diagramming also helps you identify where holes may turn up in your plan.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

I’d tucked it into a soul-crushingly boring lesson on diagramming sentences.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell


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