Example Sentences

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The discovery was made possible by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which is mapping more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond, tracking their motion, luminosity, temperature, and composition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks called it the best play of 2023, but “play” seems an inadequate description for the dramatic form that Adjmi is mapping out.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

The beauty of what you’ve done, which is mapping out these jump zones, is that you can see where future outbreaks could happen.

From Slate • May 30, 2023

Rossman, who is mapping out Russian feminist activism, counted 45 Russian feminist groups in 2021, up from about 30 in 2019.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2022

“It was in that way, little by little, that all this country was explored and mapped—just as John is mapping out this region now.”

From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Hough, Emerson