symbol
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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
“All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. A standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
It was a symbol that made Jack’s blood run cold at the very sight of it.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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Since the club's takeover by deep-pocketed Abu Dhabi investors in 2008, long-neglected districts between the stadium and the city centre have become symbols of the northern city's rebirth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Without them, dealers are left pushing aging designs while automakers race to churn out new models—meanwhile using retro throwbacks, special editions and six-figure status symbols to keep buyers coming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He argues they should become "symbols of Britain's renaissance".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Since then, the Vikings have become such well-known symbols that they are now recognized around the world.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Her brown skin is covered with glowing orange symbols, icons from an ancient-looking language.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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
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
Chopin reached sublimity through sweet sounds; Crane attained the same heights through the sense of sight and words that symboled color, shapes and scenes.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard
Say, then, reader, is not every element of thought which can arise between a Christian and his Creator symbolled forth here in equal beauty and grandeur?
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
"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
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
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
The Word in truth is symbolled forth by that straight stem on which I hang.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
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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