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Meanings of symbolic in English
Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.
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Examples for "emblematic"
Examples for "emblematic"
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They were emblematic of the unsullied ideals of freedom, democracy, and fairness.
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The covers are emblematic, and the jackets are showy and in colors.
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Many saw it as emblematic of a climate of impunity in Romania.
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For since the Middle Ages the doctrine of emblematic colouring is extinct.
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The emblematic correspondence is striking, and the inference is obvious and beautiful.
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His character was emblematical of the worst side of the liberating movement.
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Bound in cloth, full gilt back, and emblematical design on side, 3s.
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He had selected it, doubtless, as emblematical of his sister and himself.
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We can never turn our eyes upward without seeing truth's emblematical color.
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The lion, emblematical of Omnipotence, is also the apt allegory of the Resurrection.
Usage of symbolic in English
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The result is symbolic but could have international implications, the BBC reports.
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Particular symbolic traditions have evolved as certain forms have become regularly employed.
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Writer-producer Tom Fontana said the international support was an important symbolic gesture.
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Many factors contributed to its current weak and largely symbolic political position.
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But it could be symbolic because federal law typically supersedes state laws.
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Hooton believes it's symbolic of a government that has lost its way.
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Money and language are both symbolic systems for assigning and measuring value.
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MF Global analyst Chris Krueger said such a vote would be symbolic.
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For Hyundai and its ruling family, North Korea also has symbolic importance.
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It is merely known as the Set animal-theRed Lord's symbolic creature.
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The newspaper he held high had a particular symbolic significance for Murdoch.
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It is a strategic and symbolic prize for President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government.
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Plus there is, of course, a wider symbolic aspect to all this.
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It was a largely symbolic role which he has held since 1997.
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Organiser Bill McKibben described it as subjecting Obama to symbolic house arrest.
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This is a higher level in the developing of the symbolic models.
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South Africa
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Ireland
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