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symbol

[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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As "the symbol of one's personality" voice is subject to "publicity rights" and "rights to prevent unauthorised use of one's portrait and likeness", the ministry said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The stock market’s Cboe Volatility Index, which trades under the ticker symbol VIX, fell around 5% on Friday to a bit below 15, FactSet data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

The installation was meant to challenge Muslim stereotypes while making a subversive nod to the bread as a famous French symbol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Xi also said that two Chinese pandas would soon be sent to the Atlanta zoo, continuing Beijing’s historic practice of gifting pandas to foreign countries as a symbol of friendship and diplomatic tool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The nearest symbol, the jester hat, looks familiar.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Since then, the Vikings have become such well-known symbols that they are now recognized around the world.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

North Korea's national anthem, along with other symbols of the secretive state, are banned in South Korea.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

Our numbers evolved from the symbols that the Indians used; by rights they should be called Indian numerals rather than Arabic ones.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!

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

These cherubs symboled the joy of life, and when Allegri wished to sign his name, he drew a cherub.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard

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 Charles Hamilton Musgrove

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

A pole diagonal—striped red, Teeth in their row in order strung, And pewter bason by them slung, Far in the street projecting stood— The pole with bandage symboled blood.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

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

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

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

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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