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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
More problematic is the diagrammatic nature of the storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023
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
Figure 3.17 provides a diagrammatic representation of the proportions of dark minerals in light-coloured rocks.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The heavy black outline gives in a general way the outline of the table proper and thus shows a diagrammatic distribution of the parts.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano
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