symbolic

Example Sentences

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Many blacks were inspired by his campaigns less because of his ideology than because of his symbolic demonstration that a black candidate could aspire to be President, and come close to winning a party nomination.

From The Wall Street Journal

I will get images for scenes before I know what the actual scene is, and it’ll be almost more of like a symbolic image, or it’ll be a fable that I’ve heard before.

From Los Angeles Times

"We have lost one of our region's defining characteristics, a symbolic asset," Puglia's regional president Antonio Decaro told reporters at the site on Monday.

From BBC

"It visualises the state providing concrete compensation to the families of fallen soldiers... as a symbolic showcase," he said.

From Barron's

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

From Science Daily