diagram
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Professor Nohria plugs the talent agency game into a basic diagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The BBC understands the plane diagram was couriered from London for analysis at the New York Field Office, which was in overall charge of the 9/11 investigation.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
A diagram showing the Earth positioned between the Sun and the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Then she tapped the diagram at my feet with her paw.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
In “How Black Music Took Over the World,” Mr. Gibbs uses clocklike diagrams to illustrate “many of the aspects of Black music that are hard to notice, or get hidden, using Western notation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
I keep thinking Dofia Hita reported the grenade diagrams we left out in the open that time she surprised us.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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They’ve been so good that offenses have diagramed plans around them, assigning double-teams and going above and beyond to neutralize them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 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
Gilligan showed me an iPad with a schematic of the set, upon which he’d diagramed Odenkirk’s looping path through the house and the camera angles he devised to capture it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 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
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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
Forget the stodgy days of X’s and O’s diagrammed in the playbook.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
You already have diagrammed some of the Mark Twain excerpt and know how plots move along.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Bruzon Batista was the victim of another stunning young American GM’s attack in his Round 9 loss to GM Jeffery Xiong, which we pick up the diagrammed position after White has just played 44.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
He came and diagrammed a few sentences for her.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
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
Breaking through creative roadblocks can be challenging, but Isaac and Karen trade tricks, such as diagramming passages of your favorite writing and inventing weird rules to find a voice that fits your work.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2022
Unfortunately, while Cranston is painting in oils, his playwright is diagramming in stick figures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
When Mrs. Baker asked if I'd like to partner with Meryl Lee on the sentence diagramming exercise in the afternoon, I told her I'd rather do it with Doug Swieteck.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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