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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

The plane diagram was sent to the FBI's New York office and was analysed, according to an FBI source.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

However, of the files released, the FBI has only produced one document referring to the diagram, despite its evidential significance, and this was only created 11 years after the diagram's initial discovery in 2001.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Basing his hypothesis on newspaper reports of Garfield's symptoms, Dr. Frank Baker drew a diagram two days after the shooting to show where he thought the bullet penetrated.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

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

The diagrams that originally accompanied Vitruvius’s text were in any case evidently few in number and extremely rudimentary.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

“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

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

She moved through our classroom as coolly as if Khesanh were just a proper noun in a sentence that needed to be diagrammed.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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

These specially trained detectives — fewer than two dozen — do the forensic work of measuring skid marks, reviewing closed-circuit video recordings and diagraming crash sites.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2012

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

He moved beside me on the couch holding a clipboard, and with shaky hands started diagramming essential aspects of his theory that would benefit a case as ostentatious as my own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

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

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

I tried hard to concentrate, tuning myself in to what the teacher was saying as she continued her discussion of diagramming sentences.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals


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