symbolical

Example Sentences

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“I don’t want to do a symbolical gesture to bow down to the system so that I can have a home,” he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad meets German FM Heiko Maas during a symbolical start of the lectures "Women, Peace and Security" in Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2021.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2022

Yet, by bringing Alaska within range, the new test is an unambiguous game-changer in both symbolical and practical terms.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2017

She challenged Babbage to consider whether there could be “a mathematical formula ... on which the solution depends, and which can be put into symbolical language”.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2015

This was a symbolical reminder of the damage done to the fields by mildew, called the 'red fox' in the last of April.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.