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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
But there’s something too neatly diagrammatic about Shanley’s lesson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Check out diagrammatic paintings in Chelsea or Catharine Czudej’s fun house on the Upper East Side.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
One casts shadows, the other is flatter, more diagrammatic, with thread sewn into the canvas; a new proposition about the same thing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
The reader must remember that the valve shown in the section is only diagrammatic.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
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