mapmaker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mapmaker
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In Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, an Irish mapmaker and his family endure poverty and take strength from a connection to the mystic past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
He was known as a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, mapmaker, student of nature and doubtless a dozen other things we’ll learn in the course of this documentary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
But the mapmaker is still deciding which things to show and which things not to show.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Google started off as a kind of mapmaker for the internet, but through its phenomenal success gradually became the architect of the World Wide Web.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2023
The mapmaker genes activate and silence genes that make organs and structures.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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