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This month’s primary election underscored how creative political cartography can tilt outcomes.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026 Villa Park’s Justin Lopez had two hits, including a double, and drove in two runs for the South, which is a South school by all-star game cartography.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026 In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026 The start of the novel finds the family’s patriarch, Tomás, on the Irish peninsula with his son, Liam, engaged in a cartography expedition that is part of the greater Ordnance Survey of 1865 project.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cartography
Word History
Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1