symbolic
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With precise plotting and symbolic pieces, the curators have neatly fit the era into the center’s jewel-box spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“The question is ultimately about familiarity, affinity, and allyship—not as symbolic gestures, but as evidence accumulated over years of shared political struggle. It is a proxy for trust,” he wrote.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
In Hindu tradition, when a body cannot be recovered, a symbolic effigy is made from sacred "kusha" grass to represent the dead, allowing relatives to perform last rites.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Some families have held symbolic cremation funerals for the missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the same time, however, many of the new civil rights laws were proving largely symbolic.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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