as in to chart
to show and compare the values of variables in a set of data by means of a drawing
They used a computer program to graph monthly rainfall amounts over a period of five years.
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Tap that card to see your sleep debt graphed over the course of the week.
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The gap of 131 years between Scientific American’s claim and Ghosh’s assessment opens a rift between enthusiasm and shame that graphs the curve of the petroleum age.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
Two Texas men who authorities say stole $18,500 in graphing calculators from eight east-metro Target stores last year are among the first to be sentenced under Minnesota’s organized retail theft law, which hit the books in August 2023.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2025
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The gap of 131 years between Scientific American’s claim and Ghosh’s assessment opens a rift between enthusiasm and shame that graphs the curve of the petroleum age.
—Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
Two Texas men who authorities say stole $18,500 in graphing calculators from eight east-metro Target stores last year are among the first to be sentenced under Minnesota’s organized retail theft law, which hit the books in August 2023.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graph
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Metallica has been a fixture on Billboard’s Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart for years by this point.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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Per Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the cancellation, viewership for season 3 was still solid but the show slipped out of Nielsen's Top 10 Originals chart quicker than its predecessors, and the decision to cancel ultimately came down to the show's hefty price tag.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 May 2025
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Synapses are the way neurons move and compute information in the brain.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2025
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Power is the lifeblood of data centers, but data centers aren’t plug-and-play operations, requiring copious amounts of electricity for computing power and fans to keep the infrastructure cool.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
27 Apr. 2025
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That proposal submitted by Polk Stanley Wilcox was estimated to cost at least $136,000; the optional inclusion of the shock wires would have added approximately $55,000 to the total price.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
23 May 2025
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Messi — not known for headers — leaped to reach the ball that was estimated to be nearly 9 feet (2.70 meters) in the air, redirecting it with his head past Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van de Sar.—
Tim Reynolds,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Until his death in Pennsylvania last year, Gülen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip in 2016, was wanted as a terrorist leader in Turkey and Pakistan.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
14 May 2025
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The Keeling Curve, a graph that plots concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere over time, uses measurements taken at Mau Loa Observatory, starting in 1958.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
13 May 2025
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In that case, Freedom Debt Relief will calculate the overall amount of debt and develop an affordable plan to help pay off the loan and establish a healthy budget.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Starting with simple approximations and systematically layering complexity, the researchers calculated key outcomes of black hole flybys: how much they are deflected, how much energy is radiated as gravitational waves and how much the behemoths recoil after the interaction.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Andrew started diagramming the play and breaking it down.—
Bruce Arians,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Warriors coach Freddie Cintron diagrammed a down-screen to free Serene Exalant, who broke open for a long pass and a layup that clinched the game with time expiring.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Physicist Matthew von Hippel looks not at the birth of the universe but at its destruction, outlining a disastrous world-ending scenario that makes asteroid strikes and Earth-colliding black holes look like kid stuff.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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On Monday, investors took note of the risks Moody’s outlined in explaining its decision to downgrade US debt to one notch below perfect.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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Today, the Trump Administration’s theatre of cruelty toward immigrants can be traced to any number of root causes, including racist nostalgia, economic insecurity, and far-right Christian nationalism.—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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Wembley indeed shook and a first significant trophy for a club whose roots trace back to 1861 was the sort of beauty football needs.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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“Graph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graph. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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