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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
“The Holdovers” is a flat, phony, painfully diagrammatic movie masquerading as a compassionate, humane one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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
Note that this process is a diagrammatic version of the product rule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In Figure 13, Sheet 22, a diagrammatic cross-section, of an embryo is shown.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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