as in to chart
to show and compare the values of variables in a set of data by means of a drawing
They used a computer program to graph monthly rainfall amounts over a period of five years.
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Tapping the card shows more details with your movement score (called Movement Index) graphed over time and total tallies of active minutes and hours.
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
The gap of 131 years between Scientific American’s claim and Ghosh’s assessment opens a rift between enthusiasm and shame that graphs the curve of the petroleum age.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The two of them spent hours trying to graph all the factors—the salary, the stock, the lifestyle, and what Mayer calls the happiness index.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2012
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
The gap of 131 years between Scientific American’s claim and Ghosh’s assessment opens a rift between enthusiasm and shame that graphs the curve of the petroleum age.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The two of them spent hours trying to graph all the factors—the salary, the stock, the lifestyle, and what Mayer calls the happiness index.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2012
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The total solar eclipse of April 2024 charted a 115-mile-wide path across Mexico, the United States and maritime provinces of Canada.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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Hasn’t Of the two Rihanna albums currently charting, Anti is the bigger commercial and critical success.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Put simply, this is a mathematical function that is easy to compute moving forward in time, but extremely difficult to compute in the opposite direction.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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It’s estimated that 22 percent of all food-service workers in the U.S. are immigrants, with up to half that number thought to be undocumented.—
Pavia Rosati,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 2025
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The $180 billion gaming industry now dwarfs the size of traditional Hollywood movies and television (estimated at $100 billion annually), and has become the preferred pastime for younger generations.—
Matt Craig,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Less than a month into the job, Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister plotted their response to a North Korean missile launch in the open-air patio of Mar a Lago, photos of which ended up on Facebook.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
26 Mar. 2025
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Charity workers had plotted the heights and weights of Daasanach children on World Health Organization charts—the same ones our pediatrician used to monitor my daughter’s growth—and determined that more than two-thirds of the kids were malnourished.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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Just imagine: estate planners breathing easy, CPAs not chained to their desks for 80 hours a week, and appraisers not calculating business valuations in their sleep.—
Darren T. Case,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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As of Friday, the Lamont administration had not begun the painful process of calculating what Trump’s assault on economic sense would likely cost.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Inside the Serbian men’s national basketball team’s locker room at halftime of its semifinal against the United States, three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić is furiously diagramming a play on a whiteboard.—
Richard Deitsch,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Some of them had stood in the driving rain on Monday, and when the jumper bridge looked too precarious for their liking, diagrammed in the mud their ideas for shoring up its support.—
Gary Greenberg,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Oct. 2024
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However, some of the guidelines outlined in the iPLEDGE program were previously overly strict, confusing and non-inclusive.—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Senate is expected to find far more than the floor outlined in the resolution, but the figures are aimed at giving them flexibility moving forward.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2025
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What To Know Authorities traced the funds to three cryptocurrency wallet addresses, after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed a civil forfeiture complaint in February highlighting the scam.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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The film traces the mothers’ effort leading up to the school’s 2023 opening.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Graph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graph. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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