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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram] / ˈdaɪ əˌgræm /


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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

In 2021, when questioned about it in court, Bayoumi said he had the diagram because he liked finding equations and could not remember when he had written it.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

This included a diagram of a plane with a flight descent equation written alongside.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

But the Venn diagram of people who will love Niles the crocodile and those who care what shoes Pete Davidson wears isn’t a circle.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

“There was a diagram in there, but I can’t draw worth a flip. Words and numbers, yes. Pictures? Hopeless.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

And the inspiration that's likely to be important is actually real biological wiring diagrams.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

“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

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

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

"Voronoi diagrams have been used for centuries in a variety of applications ranging from city planning to network design," Navlakha says.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

However, it is easy to draw diagrams of two-dimensional spaces, such as the surface of the earth.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

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

Montefiore helps out with diagramed family trees and a cast of characters before each section of the book.

From Seattle Times Jul. 10, 2016

“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 had diagrammed the wiring and the plumbing.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

Working with an illustrator, Rogen and Goldberg had completed what was in essence a digital flip book diagraming every scene in “Escape.”

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2021

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

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

It was like he was diagramming the whole thing.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2022

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

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

In Mrs. Baker’s class, we drilled on sentence diagramming.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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