schematic
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There were no potted histories, no schematic definition of concepts, no leading questions to wake up sleepy students.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He avoided changing the weekly practice schedule or the schematic terminology.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Setting down the xenomorphs on Earth is a stunning, scary idea that Hawley builds from a schematic illustrated with tension, tragedy, fascination, and grim familiarity with our species’ greatest flaws: hubris and greed.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025
FastHorse, to her credit, doesn’t write schematic plays.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
We know of countless later instances of magic which require only the crudest and most schematic kind of representation, such as two crossed sticks for a human figure.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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