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The 4-inch vinyl “Pop!” figurines, with their oversize heads and black dot eyes, symbolize being ingrained in pop culture — objects fans buy, celebrate and display.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Built as part of efforts to modernize Venezuela, the buildings now symbolize the country's dire situation after twin quakes on Wednesday left nearly 1,500 people confirmed dead and tens of thousands missing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The city owes more than its name to the first commander in chief; George Washington encouraged the French developer Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design a capital that would symbolize the nation.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

Increasingly, speakers are being chosen or challenged not only for what they say, but for what they symbolize about institutions, technology, politics and generational authority.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

Just about everything a field hockey ball could symbolize.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In part, however, it is being led by the film that most aptly symbolizes Zaslav’s failures.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

A: Ruth symbolizes what she herself expressed: decency.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

Instead of being concerned with product placement, they had an innate understanding of what their office symbolizes and demands.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2026

For me, the ash cross symbolizes how to repent—at the cross.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

One Egyptian village in particular symbolizes the problem.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Eve symbolized beauty and promised consumers the same results through their purchasing power.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

A theatergoer was called upon to play the vet who euthanized the narrator’s childhood pet, a dog named Indiana Bones that was symbolized by a coat someone volunteered from the audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

For generations, it has symbolized resilience and rural life, valued for its toughness, ability to graze on marginal land, and nutrient-dense milk that supported small farmers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026

Both symbolized the shift from music-making—friends and family singing around the piano—to spectatorship and consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Of course, over a period of two hundred and sixty years a lot of Tang men no longer knew what the queue had originally symbolized.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

They are clad variously in red porphyry, black basalt, gray granite and yellowish sandstone from nearby Montjuïc, with emblems symbolizing the four evangelists, the 12 apostles and an assortment of Catholic saints and geographic regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

This mutual cooperation embodies the Japanese concept of "AUN," symbolizing balance and harmony between opposites.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2025

Dmitriev, who heads Russia's sovereign wealth fund, said Musk's company could build the tunnel -- a project "symbolizing unity" -- in under eight years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

Her breezy, layered menswear in that film became a cultural touchstone, symbolizing a new kind of womanhood — intellectual, self-assured and a little eccentric.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

Cressen's fingers went to the chain about his neck, each link forged from a different metal, each symbolizing his mastery of another branch of learning; the maester's collar, mark of his order.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin