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Main Entry:	totem [toh-tuhm] Show IPA/ˈtoʊtəm/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pole
Synonyms:	emblem, figure, representation, symbol, token

Main Entry:	god
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	supernatural being worshipped by people
Synonyms:	Absolute Being, All Knowing, All Powerful, Allah, Almighty, Creator, Divine Being, Father, God, Holy Spirit, Infinite Spirit, Jah, Jehovah, King of Kings, Lord, Maker, Yahweh, daemon, deity, demigod, demon, divinity, holiness, idol, master, numen, omnipotent, power, prime mover, providence, soul, spirit, totem, tutelary, universal life force, world spirit

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Example Sentences

Two eight-and-a-half-foot-tall totem poles have been stolen from the backyard of an artist who specializes in wood carvings.

The short answer is: if you are low on the totem pole the boss has the power so you have to do what he/she wants.

These are sensible ideas, but radical in a country where energy is still a nationalist totem.

Two eight-and-a-half-foot-tall totem poles have been stolen from the backyard of an artist who specializes in wood carvings.

The short answer is: if you are low on the totem pole the boss has the power so you have to do what he/she wants.

These are sensible ideas, but radical in a country where energy is still a nationalist totem.

The museum also had a ten-meter long canoe which you could touch, along with drums you could play and many totem poles.

If that was true then, the bottom line is on top of the totem pole now.

So it's not all about crummy pay or being low man on the totem pole or being denied that corner office.

Among them are a carved wooden rain screen and four house posts, similar to totem poles, used to identify family dwellings.

Nels found self-acceptance in the concept of the totem animal.

Germany certainly looks hard-pressed to meet the totem budget-deficit condition.

He was rather taken aback because he was the low man on the totem pole among this group.

There's something delicious about that totem of minimalism being slathered in ostentation.

The other problem with these situations is there is little recourse for people low down the totem pole.

But development of computing comes much lower on the totem pole.

With private offices on the wane, chairs are becoming a totem of workplace prestige.

It was a spiritual transformation, the new name was a totem animal of mine.

It's sanctified ground, even though it's a single-minded cult totem for a bloodily murdered czar.

Many carvings are made from a single piece of wood and fashioned into a totem pole decorated with interlocking.

Bern's yellow-red coat of arms shows the totem animal marching upward, its red tongue jutting out of a black head.

Kushner is far from the only one picked more as a totem of political correctness than for his actual accomplishments.

Panasiuk will let them pick a family totem from a dusty, leather-bound book.

One yard has a carved wooden totem pole and at certain times of year they erect a huge teepee as well.

Firing great teachers because they happen to be low on the seniority totem pole is madness.

And the unintended consequence at the bottom of the totem pole is the kind of reprehensible behavior uncovered recently.

Beauvoir and his followers dance around a giant totem to the beat of drums.

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