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The political history of the Olympic pictogram by Kim Hew-Low
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John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
Each card has a point value and a pictogram that tells you which tiles on the board the card affects relative to its position.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
Even a page with some lousy pictograms and mangled text that reads like it's been run through a translation tool three or four times would have been helpful.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023
The characters do sometimes speak, but in a language of pictograms—images of images that, in Zsako’s hands, convey emotions more efficiently than most text.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
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John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
Each card has a point value and a pictogram that tells you which tiles on the board the card affects relative to its position.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
Even a page with some lousy pictograms and mangled text that reads like it's been run through a translation tool three or four times would have been helpful.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2023
The characters do sometimes speak, but in a language of pictograms—images of images that, in Zsako’s hands, convey emotions more efficiently than most text.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictogram
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Understanding that motifs from seals are directly related to the pictographs that would eventually lay the foundation for the first writing system shows how meaning was transferred from motifs to script, the study authors said.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Participants also can join field trips to Mine Wash and pictograph and petroglyph sites.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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For the most part, CVs are used by academics, scientists, lawyers, physicians and other professionals with letters after their name.Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
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The information was central to what NSSF called its voter education program, which involved sending letters, postcards and later emails to persuade gun buyers to vote for the firearms industry’s preferred political candidates.Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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One comic artist tells a story through shadows behind the curtains of a window; another, with hieroglyphs the reader must decipher with the help of a legend.Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
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One of the most intriguing discoveries was a bronze sword engraved with the cartouche of Ramses, or hieroglyphs arranged in an oval representing his name.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
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The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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And as a sign of the ideogram’s lasting appeal, Hadid was photographed in New York City earlier this week wearing a cropped T-shirt with the yellow icon — albeit the brand was unknown.Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 11 July 2024
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The dial features full Super-LumiNova block numerals, ensuring excellent visibility in low-light conditions.Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Photo : Panerai, Getty Hugh Grant: Panerai Luminor Base Hugh-Hugh Grant was totally on brand this week when he was seen watching an Italian soccer match in Como wearing a Panerai Luminor Base with a black sandwich dial, large Arabic numerals, and crown guard.Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2024
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In addition to the letters, the last of which arrived in 1974, the Zodiac sent out four ciphers that would supposedly reveal his identity.Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Some sleuths alleged that one of the Zodiac's ciphers contained a reference to Bevilacqua, but Italian police reportedly closed their investigation into Bevilacqua in 2021.Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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