symbol
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His friend and a cousin carried in two fence rails said to have been split from logs by Lincoln, and he became the “Rail Splitter”—“a living symbol of frontier democracy,” as Mr. Earle puts it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He became a rare symbol of institutional continuity: A regular bit-part character keeping calm and carrying on during a merry-go-round of political change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“They look tough and unisex to me, with mild expressions, beautiful clothes, tights, ruffles and sleeves, plus a firearm. It’s a great symbol for being a warrior, especially as a small business owner.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Historians recall the scheme - known locally as the road on top of a town - was seen as a symbol of progress by many although some suffered.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
She pointed at the half-finished symbol on the screen and at the one drawn in marker on Coal’s backpack.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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But it is likely one giant bet on AI capital expenditures spread across multiple ticker symbols.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Materials, like symbols, are recycled across sculptures and tableaux in an inexhaustible loop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Elsewhere, some bonfires have caused controversy because they include the display of contentious images and the burning of sensitive symbols such as national flags.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
In this still‑life‑cum‑cosmos, Klee explores the stages of growth, the cycle of life and the evolution of symbols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
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From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Here is the chest, sealed with my signet-ring, A mystery and a treasure lies within, Whose worth is faintly symboled by these gems, Starring the case.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
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 Hubbard, Elbert
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 Musgrove, Charles Hamilton
Nature's heart, with the spring joy put back and deadened, symboled the melancholy that had fallen upon Bridgeport.
From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Benton, Joel
Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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 Perin, Florence Hobart
It was in my heart, and must have been symbolled in my countenance.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
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 Poore, Henry Rankin
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 Murray, Henry A.
The Word in truth is symbolled forth by that straight stem on which I hang.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by Mead, G. R. S.
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
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