symbolism

Example Sentences

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There’s more to this outcome than Resistance-pleasing symbolism, though.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

Similar to the way Lamar’s performance was laden with symbolism about Black history, life and death under the American police state, Bad Bunny placed cultural tributes in plain sight.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026

In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The Forbidden City was the heart of imperial China for more than 500 years and remains laden with symbolism of its powerful past.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

With some kind of reverse symbolism, Rufus called me back on July 4.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler