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[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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The automaker expects to begin trading as a Nasdaq-listed company on Nov. 17 under its current GM stock symbol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The company’s filing Monday revealed that it will trade under the symbol “ANT” on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Lemons: Fruit is a symbol of life, fertility, love, and wholesome goodness.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

While it was closed to the public in 1975, the increasingly ruined structure has become a symbol of Brighton for some.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

She’s already drawing an Adinkra symbol on her palm.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Alonzo and Dale named the gallery after their grandmother, Della Brockman, and designed a logo that combined the male and female gender symbols with the letter B and an arrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

City-hall buildings are widely regarded as symbols of the French Republic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The three, snatched from their home, became symbols of the Gaza hostage crisis.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The settlers walked between Ganim and Kadim, settlements that are powerful symbols for their movement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

These symbols of animals and people had supernatural significance and magic powers.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

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 Emma Lazarus

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 Joel Benton

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

Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

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

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

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

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

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

"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

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

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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