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Origin of diagrammatic
1850–55; diagram + -atic as in problem, problematic
Vocabulary lists containing diagrammatic
Example Sentences
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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Note that this process is a diagrammatic version of the product rule.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In tracing this idea to its grim conclusion, “The Card Counter” doesn’t escape a certain diagrammatic neatness.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Writing in The Times, Roberta Smith said his small ink drawings and gouaches “operate somewhere in the gap between William Wegman’s drolly captioned early drawings and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s acerbic diagrammatic images.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021
In Figure 13, Sheet 22, a diagrammatic cross-section, of an embryo is shown.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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