symbol
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Lemons: Fruit is a symbol of life, fertility, love, and wholesome goodness.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
Some radiators have a snowflake symbol on the valve that activates the frost protection setting, meaning that if the room gets very cold, the radiator warms slightly to stop the pipes from bursting.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
For generations of Americans, owning a car has been a symbol of independence.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The disappearance of handicrafts, "a symbol of Mexico," would be a blow to the country's heritage, she argued.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
That I want the mailbox to have some important meaning, like a symbol in a novel.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Alonzo and Dale named the gallery after their grandmother, Della Brockman, and designed a logo that combined the male and female gender symbols with the letter B and an arrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Videos of rats scuttling through corridors in other lycées soon hit social media, providing striking symbols of the discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The settlers walked between Ganim and Kadim, settlements that are powerful symbols for their movement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Without them, dealers are left pushing aging designs while automakers race to churn out new models—meanwhile using retro throwbacks, special editions and six-figure status symbols to keep buyers coming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Now the only other thing I can do...is to replace them by other letters, or by symbols, figures, dancing men, or what not.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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At its lowest, the instinct that boosts us up to peep over our neighbor's transom, symboled by a knot-hole.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
Will thy hand hold the pen which shall indict The symboled mystery-write the final knell Of rainbow fancy-is the distant sight A nothingless encircled by a spell Of gleaming bubbles wrought of beauty's shell?
From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite
Ah, could the world but gaze upon that Christ With heart attuned unto the symboled love That makes his face a radiant miracle!
From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
Gold stamens set in silver filigrane Reveal the treasures which we idolize; And all the cost of struggle for the prize Is symboled by a secret blood-red stain.
From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Ellen Marriage
Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
Say, then, reader, is not every element of thought which can arise between a Christian and his Creator symbolled forth here in equal beauty and grandeur?
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
"Fyve wellys"—there symbolled trace, Hushing this mortal strife,— "Of pitty, merci, comfort, gracy, And everlastingh lyffe."
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
It was in my heart, and must have been symbolled in my countenance.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symbolled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
The public too should be sufficiently knowing to catch the code signals of each artist whereby these natural facts are symbolled.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore
Be it the birthday wreath she wears Fresh and fair, and symbolling The young number of her years, The sweet blushes of her spring.
From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray
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