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symbol

[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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Her mother Lea Garofalo, who was killed in 2009, became a powerful symbol of resistance to the mafia after turning witness for the state against the 'Ndrangheta clan in southern Italy.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Workers for delivery and ride-share service Snapp, the Iranian version of Uber and once a symbol of the country’s business hopes, also went on strike this week in several cities.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The unprecedented loan from France, the result of years of diplomacy and set to last until next July, has been hailed a symbol of renewed cross-Channel ties following the rancour of Brexit.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

“The symbol they used to try to end me is now a symbol of resilience, redemption, and recovery,” Biden said in the post.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

The akoma ntoso Adinkra symbol appears in jade light on each body.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Here were the most active stock-market ticker symbols on MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

In France there has been a ban on wearing any conspicuous religious symbols, including headscarves, turbans and kippas, in schools for more than 20 years.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Here were the most active stock-market ticker symbols as of 6 a.m.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Instead of being blunt, he presents constellations of ideas that provide a stream-of-consciousness experience, where signs, symbols, objects, colors and emotions all compete for attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Other notes may be marked with a combination of articulation symbols, for example legato with accents.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

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

At its lowest, the instinct that boosts us up to peep over our neighbor's transom, symboled by a knot-hole.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard

Chopin reached sublimity through sweet sounds; Crane attained the same heights through the sense of sight and words that symboled color, shapes and scenes.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

Will thy hand hold the pen which shall indict The symboled mystery-write the final knell Of rainbow fancy-is the distant sight A nothingless encircled by a spell Of gleaming bubbles wrought of beauty's shell?

From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite

It was in my heart, and must have been symbolled in my countenance.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

The Word in truth is symbolled forth by that straight stem on which I hang.

From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead

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

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

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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