symptomatic

Example Sentences

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The question is whether that caution is traveling far enough upstream, before patients are symptomatic.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

But he is symptomatic of the America in which we live.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Of course, Tudor cannot be held responsible for what happened to Kinsky, but it was symptomatic of how things have got worse on his watch.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

This month’s Rafale deal is symptomatic of the historic Indian tendency to meander on defense modernization, Sameer Lalwani, an expert on the Indian military at the German Marshall Fund, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The purists who call out these errors see them as symptomatic of a decline in the quality of communication and reasoning in our culture today.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker