symbolic

Example Sentences

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Participation in many of these organizations is inherently symbolic—a ritual of internationalism—so quitting them is inherently performative as well.

From The Wall Street Journal

"These achievements weren't symbolic, Guglielmo provided a crucial public service, he helped country people survive in a really harsh natural environment," Dr. Ilko says.

From Science Daily

These offer British firms "really important access" and are "symbolic of what we're doing with the relationship", he said.

From BBC

Moving through, we encounter unpredictable groupings of works made between the 1980s and the present, most deploying a traditional vocabulary of symbolic marks in sometimes inventive, sometimes unremarkable ways.

From The Wall Street Journal

Such a victory would be more than symbolic.

From Salon