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emblematic

adjective as in symbolic

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His administration has become engulfed in the sorts of scandals emblematic of an unpopular old-guard establishment that he rails against.

It’s emblematic of why a timely new museum exhibition in Los Angeles is so vitally important.

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Cheever’s fiction would provide images that would become emblematic of midcentury American life: plush lawns, boozy parties, men in hats waiting for commuter trains into the city.

The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now emblematic Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” flaunting eyes on his palms on the back cover of the DVD.

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He sees behavior reminiscent of the complicated vendor-financing setups at Cisco Systems, Lucent, and Global Crossing in the late 1990s, which ultimately became emblematic of the dot-com bust.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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