emblematize

Typically treated as sartorial jokes, these jumpsuits emblematize the star at his apogee, that moment before his fame and his life collapsed on him and he crumpled to earth.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Already, the data-driven ad-targeting model that Google and Facebook emblematize is much more worrying than normal advertising, in which buyers purchase ads to reach a demographic but are unable to target individuals.

From Slate ● May 7, 2018

By then, Steiner’s flights—like Eisner’s survival—had come to emblematize all he hoped to achieve, a rejection of the human body and its limitations.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2018

In the ’60s, John Dickinson used it for hooved and footed plaster furnishings that came to emblematize San Francisco’s California cool.

From Architectural Digest ● Jan. 7, 2015

The commentators of Vasari have taken this to emblematize the Roman Catholic legend of the Virgin having given rods to each of her suitors, and chosen him whose rod blossomed.

From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick

A product partnership with Disney, he suggested, emblematized its lack of focus.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

His inability to accept payment now, he suggests, is an expression of his faith in God, as emblematized by the Jesus figurines we see proudly displayed next to his army certificates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Michel’s father and uncle, Pierre and Jean, were widely considered to be nouvelle cuisine pioneers, emblematized by a famous salmon and sorrel dish they invented.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Baradar, who once emblematized the Taliban’s ascetic-warrior image, will have to decide whether to sleep there, in the former home of the men he spent two decades fighting.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

The driving wind and storm that emblematized another kind, gave emphasis also to the emblem of shelter.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner