How to Use cartography in a Sentence
cartography
noun- She studied cartography in college.
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Wine maps are some of the coolest-looking prints in all of cartography.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
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Even as those worlds leapt from the page to the screen, their cartography remained crucial.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2022
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And Russia is not the only country that has raised such a fuss over cartography.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
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In cartography, as in politics, change can be slow to come.
—Greg Miller, National Geographic, 12 Oct. 2016
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FRBs could give us a big leg up in our cosmic cartography efforts.
—Duncan Lorimer, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
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The art of cartography, past and present, is an act of storytelling, a visual guide to a narrative or its point of departure.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2020
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The rest would be in the hands of National Geographic’s own world-class cartography shop.
—Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2019
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The maps in the exhibition date show the circumpolar region as far back as the 16th century -- when there were many more blank spots in the cartography.
—Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
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Whatever its historic value, no one seems to know who to credit for the crook cartography.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
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This is something grander, messier, and much more compelling: an unstable cartography of images and ideas on the move, blowing across the globe like trade winds of the subconscious.
—New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
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Utah lawmakers are inviting the public to put their cartography skills to good use, and create maps for the once-a-decade redistricting process.
—Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2021
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Smith’s act of forensic cartography placed Schutz atop the Mendota.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
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Now a group of cartography students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has added to the data.
—Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
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Redrawing the map would require much more than fresh cartography.
—Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
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After walking me through the complete cartography of the human face in an anatomy textbook, one talked about boring my sinuses open wider with lasers.
—New York Times, 3 May 2022
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But the cost of digitizing the cartography of an entire country was more than one company could afford.
—Bob Johnstone, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1993
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Recognizing slave revolt as a species of warfare is the first step toward a new cartography of Atlantic slavery.
—Vincent Brown, Time, 17 Jan. 2020
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Neither Welch nor Harmon responded to a request for comment on the suit, but in the past defended the legality of their cartography.
—Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2021
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The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
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Declarations of intent to run for the US presidency have a special kind of cartography.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020
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In this way, the diction of the poem mirrors the precise (but historically incorrect) and cold grammar of cartography.
—Laura Da’ Victoria Chang, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
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Most are colorful renditions, in acrylic on canvas, of old maps ranging throughout early cartography, which have been a staple of Ms. Kozloff’s art for more than two decades.
—Roberta Smith and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
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Anthony’s father had belonged to a gang on Thetford Avenue, which, though only a block away, was, in the cartography of the neighborhood, another nation.
—Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
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Leggett said Cook’s voyages and cartography were significant achievements, but his brief stop in the area largely is not significant.
—Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
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Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have accomplished a feat of cartography, creating a map of a standard mouse brain with details down to the cellular level.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2020
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Through snowy stargazing, flirting with guys on dating apps, taking ketamine (or not), and watching YouTube lecture videos, outer and inner space collapse – to draw a warped cartography of desire and distance.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
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Tracing circuits in the brain is such delicate work that it is still done by hand, and some of the most exciting new imaging methods focus on making clearer and deeper pictures of neurons for use in such cartography.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2011
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During that time, the troops learn everything from marksmanship and cartography to radios and engineering.
—Siobhán O'Grady and Kostiantyn Khudov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
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The principal focus would be cartography, with the work to be carried out in terrain utterly unknown to either science or geography.
—Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
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