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Giant pandas have been a symbol of US-China relations since Beijing gave a pair to the National Zoo in Washington DC in 1972.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Analysts also have said the facilities have become a visible symbol of the divide between those who are thriving in the current economy and those who aren’t.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Many wore triangular paper hats similar to a popular animated character from Czech TV that has become a symbol of the protest.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
In November, after China’s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, began service, Chinese state media celebrated the “three-carrier era” as a symbol of global prestige.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
The theme may be “No Place for Hate,” but if there was anybody in our school who didn’t recognize the symbol on our atrium before, they sure as anything recognize it now.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Strategically embracing the right symbols in the office really can advance your career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Clad in caps and jackets emblazoned with their respective national symbols, Lantratova and Lubinets, often appearing side-by-side, on Friday oversaw the local ceasefire in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
In response, he created a series of photographic collages that showed Black boxers battling corporate towers — figures that generate wealth attempting to take down the symbols of its accumulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
Many different kinds of symbols can appear on, above, and below the staff.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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These cherubs symboled the joy of life, and when Allegri wished to sign his name, he drew a cherub.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard
His jaw was the jaw of courage; his chin meant purpose; his nose symboled intellect, poise and power; his brow spelled brain.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard
Around her limbs a veil of woven mist Wavers, and turns from fibered amethyst To textured crystal; through which symboled bars Of silver burn, and cabalistic stars Of nebulous gold.
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
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
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
That with the earth symbolled forth sudden, or perhaps violent, death; that with the water, emigration or ship-wreck; while that with the ring, of course a wedding and domestic happiness.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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
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
"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
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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