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[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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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

Its logo is a prairie dog in a black-and-yellow nuclear symbol.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Jeff’s gold necklace was given as a symbol as well.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

The CJP quickly gained a huge following online, turning one of the most reviled insects into a symbol of defiance and resilience with 26 million followers on Instagram.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Ama has her hand pushed outward, with an Adinkra symbol scratched into her palm—an illustration that looks like a flower petal with an open center.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

But it is likely one giant bet on AI capital expenditures spread across multiple ticker symbols.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Materials, like symbols, are recycled across sculptures and tableaux in an inexhaustible loop.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Membership became one of the clearest symbols that someone had joined the country’s post-independence establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The pedestal beneath the Story Box turned into a pillar of light, and symbols blazed to life within it.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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 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

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 Cawein, Madison Julius

Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!

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

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

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

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne

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

"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 Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

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.

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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