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Origin of diagrammatic
1850–55; diagram + -atic as in problem, problematic
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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
Check out diagrammatic paintings in Chelsea or Catharine Czudej’s fun house on the Upper East Side.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
The Hollywood Reporter: “David Mamet’s latest effort, which the playwright has also directed, is just as diagrammatic, glib and insincere as any over-massaged middlebrow Miramax film from the 1990s.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2019
Against fields of powdery blue, drenching orange and ethereal lilac, Klint set circular or spiral-shaped motifs, looping letters and diagrammatic signs in an array of harmonious yellows, greens, whites and blacks.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018
Figure XVII., represents, in a diagrammatic way, the stages in the conversion of a cartilaginous bar to bone.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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