symbolic
Example Sentences
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Delivery robots are both disappointing in their reality and alarming in their symbolic implication.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
And the Terafab collaboration “serves as meaningful symbolic validation” that Intel’s 18A chip process node is gaining credibility on the commercial side, Acree added.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Successive UK governments have rejected calls for reparations, which can range from financial to symbolic measures.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The effect of allied support isn’t merely symbolic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Descriptions moved easily from the physical to the symbolic and were incomplete without a range of references to poets and philosophers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing symbolic
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 5
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