symbolism
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Military expert Fadi Daoud told AFP that the Lebanese army's success in Zawtar al-Gharbiya was based on a "particular equation: a small area, relative calm, strong political symbolism and direct US pressure".
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Putin’s sensitivity to this kind of status symbolism is well documented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Warrior symbolism from truly horrific combatants is all around us.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
“The symbolism is very important, but the actual investing ramifications of it are really not,” Sosnick said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Then when we started learning about symbolism in Mr. Bonner’s language arts class this year—a concrete representation of a thing or idea that is more abstract in nature—it clicked: the trunk wasn't an actual trunk.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
Why does heavy metal use so many biblical references and symbolisms?
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
The angels mesmerizingly invoke the symbolisms of Old World Catholicism, Peru’s indigenous culture, and, thanks to their malevolent European-looking faces, the clashes that resulted when these forces met.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
An amiable fantasy, the play is told in homely, backyard terms, with no attempt at cosmic symbolisms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Part of Playwright Chayefsky's purpose in doing this is to cast light on the world of reality, to set up symbolisms, set speculation going.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet even at Palermo and Messina this art was long controlled by the traditions of Greece, ancient and modern, while fertilized by Persian and Indian forms and traditional symbolisms.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
Vocabulary lists containing symbolism
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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