symbol

Example Sentences

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By switching between number symbols and dot clusters, the researchers could test both symbolic number understanding and more basic quantity recognition.

From Science Daily

Sam had six of them, including a crown of thorns, pilot wings and his fraternity symbols.

From The Wall Street Journal

In its way, “Today” has become a bright candle of remembrance and a symbol of communal care, along with a reminder that these broadly recognizable figures are still as human as the rest of us.

From Salon

Other cables labelled him a "symbol of kleptocratic government and violent politics" and accused him of being "phenomenally corrupt".

From Barron's

He then added a a small line of code somewhere in the thousands of lines of letters, numbers and symbols into my project, unbeknown to me.

From BBC