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[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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His visit is a "tremendous symbol," said Tobias Cremer, a European lawmaker from Germany and the main sponsor of a March resolution calling for stronger EU-Canada cooperation.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

But a weakening economy and ferocious domestic competition has also made the fungus a symbol of the challenges many are facing in China’s difficult economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 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 regime tried to portray it as a symbol of America's spent efforts.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Ama is already taking action, using her stylus and drawing a familiar Adinkra symbol on the barrel she’s sitting on—the sun symbol.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Here were the most-searched stock-market ticker symbols as of 5 a.m.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

There, statues of the poet have been dismantled as symbols of Russian imperialism.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

There is widespread agreement on how to name chords, but there are several different systems for writing chord symbols.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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 Henry A. Murray

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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