symbolic
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The best likely outcome for investors: Symbolic gestures that steady the relationship and preserve, and possibly extend, the detente reached last fall.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
Named after Cambridge University mathematician and logician John Venn, they first appeared in his book "Symbolic Logic" in 1880.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024
“But it doesn’t mean my clients wouldn’t want it. Symbolic relief is not nothing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Symbolic of the rift was the cancellation of what had been until now a routine set-piece of Franco-German friendship - the regular joint meeting of the two countries' cabinets.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022
In archaic times man was unable to give expression to this concept, so he represented it by symbols: hence the earliest art was Symbolic art.
From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Govett, Ernest
Vocabulary lists containing symbolic
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 5
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