symbolize
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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
“So I was incorporating things like the half doorway to symbolize their struggle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Wolfsthal is among experts involved in the "Doomsday Clock" meant to symbolize how near humanity is to destruction.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
The problem was that Hamilton has come to symbolize modern Ferrari—the frustrated team trapped in a historic dry spell—and not old-school Ferrari, which defined entire eras of the sport as motor-racing royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
“What does it symbolize, what could it represent, or what do you associate it with? Could it be untangled or reorganized in some way to create another meaning or point in a direction?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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