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Recent Examples of pictogram
Nevertheless, Kurita’s pictograms bear little resemblance to modern emojis and were more akin to the Macintosh pictograms created by Susan Kare in 1984.
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Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
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
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Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
The political history of the Olympic pictogram by Kim Hew-Low
This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictogram
Noun
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Hang out at the famous black sand beach or meander the six miles of trails through ancient sites and pictographs.Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
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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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The exact contents of the letters are hard to verify, but Cash and Dylan did write to each other.Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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These words could be letters when there is more than one of them.Shannon Power, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Eventually, Proto-Sinaitic script, which transformed some hieroglyphs into alphabetic letters, emerged in the Sinai Peninsula around 1900 B.C.E. Scholars have long thought that this was when the alphabet was invented, as Schwartz says in a statement.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
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The entrance was decorated with reliefs and hieroglyphs depicting Repyt; a door frame on the opposite side depicts the fertility god Min alongside two rarely shown decans, or stars that measure the passage of time at night, as well as a falcon and ibis heads.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 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 is white and features the French Maison’s signature black Roman numerals, minute railway track, blued hands, and a date at six o’clock.Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
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Though one other numeral also stuck in fans' minds: 4,192.Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
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Ferreira struggles a bit more to find the depth in her role; her character comes off as merely a cipher, a stand-in for an audience similarly positioned as outsiders.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Editor’s picks For decades, Patricia McGlone was a cipher, a ghost.Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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