symbolic

A majority no-confidence vote would be a largely symbolic gesture, signalling the broader faculty's discontent and applying pressure on university leadership to act.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“The question is ultimately about familiarity, affinity, and allyship—not as symbolic gestures, but as evidence accumulated over years of shared political struggle. It is a proxy for trust,” he wrote.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

But the country’s constrained weapons-manufacturing industry might struggle to produce them in large amounts, potentially making the debut more symbolic than militarily significant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

There are roughly a dozen distinct motives for keeping things, Ekerdt said, and they break down into two broad camps: things that are useful and things that are symbolic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The COD served an important symbolic function for Africans; blacks who had come into the struggle because they were antiwhite discovered that there were indeed whites of goodwill who treated Africans as equals.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela