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symbol

[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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The conference is a symbol of Saudi Arabia’s new economic model, bringing financiers and corporate leaders into the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The dogs are also an important national symbol, having been officially designated part of Peru's cultural heritage in 2000.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Their late, beloved Dolly Parton was a self-invented, child-free artistic genius and unabashed sex symbol in a devoted but open-minded marriage, who brought the lamplight of literature to children.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The country's third largest city has also become a symbol of the corruption that has dogged Albania's painful transition to capitalism, with Albanians paying with their health for recurring scandals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

I drew a symbol for myself with the mountain in the background, and in the foreground were the remains of Ernest B. Lawson Elementary School.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

The message from 1809 -- detailing French and allied troops' positions in two dozen lines of symbols, numbers and letters -- had lain ignored in an online academic archive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Videos of rats scuttling through corridors in other lycées soon hit social media, providing striking symbols of the discontent.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

It has a bridal shop overflowing with sparkly gowns and a coffee shop serving up lattes with Chinese symbols for happiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Possessions are often “tangible symbols of love and perceived parental favor,” Birkhofer says.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

I read over the email and giggled at the nonsensical paragraph of letters and numbers and symbols at the end, courtesy of Fig’s rump.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Gold stamens set in silver filigrane Reveal the treasures which we idolize; And all the cost of struggle for the prize Is symboled by a secret blood-red stain.

From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Ellen Marriage

A pole diagonal—striped red, Teeth in their row in order strung, And pewter bason by them slung, Far in the street projecting stood— The pole with bandage symboled blood.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

Will thy hand hold the pen which shall indict The symboled mystery-write the final knell Of rainbow fancy-is the distant sight A nothingless encircled by a spell Of gleaming bubbles wrought of beauty's shell?

From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite

Nature's heart, with the spring joy put back and deadened, symboled the melancholy that had fallen upon Bridgeport.

From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton

His jaw was the jaw of courage; his chin meant purpose; his nose symboled intellect, poise and power; his brow spelled brain.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard

That with the earth symbolled forth sudden, or perhaps violent, death; that with the water, emigration or ship-wreck; while that with the ring, of course a wedding and domestic happiness.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symbolled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

It was in my heart, and must have been symbolled in my countenance.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

The public too should be sufficiently knowing to catch the code signals of each artist whereby these natural facts are symbolled.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

"Fyve wellys"—there symbolled trace, Hushing this mortal strife,— "Of pitty, merci, comfort, gracy, And everlastingh lyffe."

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

Be it the birthday wreath she wears Fresh and fair, and symbolling The young number of her years, The sweet blushes of her spring.

From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray


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