symbol
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For decades, homeownership has been a bedrock symbol of success.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
However, Streeting said he had also been congratulated by people in the Ministry of Defence for being a symbol of progress.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Still, the demolition of a symbol for the city weighs heavily on some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Russians’ social media feeds filled up with videos of people biting into apples, lip-syncing to songs about apples and inking tattoos with the fruit that is the party’s symbol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Ama’s Adinkra symbol manifests into that same magnetic force that had brought Lala back to the ship.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
It is worth keeping an eye on the hourly weather symbols, as well as the percentage chances of rain, if you are making outdoor plans.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In the labyrinthine manner of Orhan Pamuk or Umberto Eco, the novel playfully explores symbols and the ways their meanings evolve across time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Scenic painter Miriam Hellmann was the skillful hand behind the mural’s final product: an image of a giant, bright orange poppy, a butterfly and a peacock, along with floral and faunal symbols.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Instead, Marco carves a series of symbols into the frost on the window of his flat that faces out to the street, using the columns of the museum beyond as a guide.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
At its lowest, the instinct that boosts us up to peep over our neighbor's transom, symboled by a knot-hole.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 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
Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
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
The Word in truth is symbolled forth by that straight stem on which I hang.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
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
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
"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
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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