symbolic
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A barrel of North Sea Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed back above the symbolic $90 threshold to $90.31.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Previous research suggests that accumulative stone throwing is likely communicative or may even have a symbolic purpose, with sites marking important locations within the chimpanzees’ territory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
All this is symbolic of a man who is both pathetic and corrupt.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
While economists view this threshold as largely symbolic, the sheer magnitude is hard to overstate, dwarfing the entire annual output of the U.S. economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
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