symbol

Example Sentences

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"This is because the carrier was viewed as a national symbol, and it carried the Canadian identity everywhere it flies," Larocque told the BBC.

From BBC

"The Moon was not just a symbol for thinking about our place in the Universe, it is a beacon for science and understanding where we came from."

From BBC

“Many thinkers,” Mr. Griffiths notes, have “had an interest in probability, whether they tried to understand the mind in terms of rules and symbols or networks, spaces, and features.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Like many, Huw got his first dog - a black Labrador named Clyde - in lockdown, and describes him as a "symbol of home" that also became the symbol of his business.

From BBC

For Counterpoint analyst Yang Wang, the iPhone is the most successful consumer electronics product ever, reshaping human communication while becoming "a global fashion and status symbol."

From Barron's