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symbolic

If something is symbolic, it has or is used as a symbol. In many religions, the number 3 has a symbolic value. The apology was purely symbolic and did nothing to change the situation. It was dirty and dark in a way that was very symbolic of New York.

symbolic

relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols symbolic logic symbolic operations symbolic thinking (= emblematic) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract a crown is emblematic of royalty the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish using symbolism symbolic art

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Simple sentences

The price is symbolic.
Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.

Movie subtitles

There are those who attach a certain symbolic value to them.
Sir, the symbolic voyage that you make is an emblem of human life.
The joyful, unchanged rites, symbolic of the temptation of man.
I'll have you know, that picture's symbolic of the beginning of the world.
Perhaps it's symbolic of something deep in her subconscious, as her psychiatrist believes.
Your dream. with its symbolic language.
Strike in the symbolic mark!
Perhaps a symbolic ceremony to ratify our bond with Egypt.
Peyrac taunted the Inquisition. That's true. But a symbolic retribution would have been enough for the Archbishop.
I think we should have a real symbolic representation.
The title is symbolic?
The title is symbolic. She doesn't actually steal it.
You get the symbolic meaning?
You will find a somewhat varied selection from the chiaroscuro of the Dutch masters to the symbolic fantasy of Chagall, Matisse. Picasso.
Yes, you're symbolic of the English race.
I'm beginning to think that you're symbolic of yours.
He subdues their will using symbolic gestures, and through magical help, spiritual daggers, thunderbolts and magic bells.
I'll have you know, that picture's symbolic of the beginning of the world. That's where I first heard of the world, at kindergarten.
He's made for cutting symbolic ribbons.
I hope it isn't too symbolic. Next week, I shall return with soaring spirits and an uplifting story.
Aha! forget the Symbolic same!
During the symbolic presidency of field marshal Hindenburg, timorous governments followed to each others, trying in vain to reconcile the lawless forces that tore the Weimar republic apart.
You will find a somewhat varied selection from the chiaroscuro of the Dutch masters to the symbolic fantasy of Chagall, Matisse.
In this case, the reason is symbolic, devoid of religious connotation but still, the fact remains the same and. and I would say yes, which is practically the same.
I will have a symbolic glass only.
Another, pierced his skull with an electric drill, an act of considerable symbolic significance.
People get symbolic over death.
It'll be symbolic.
With symbolic logic and Einstein's mathematics. I can conclusively prove that two and two are two.
I will be content with a life of a symbolic marriage.
That picture is symbolic to the beginning of the world.
C'aurait been Rehabilitation symbolic.
Letters written by anonymous but symbolic hands.
Because of their symbolic identification with human beings.
But a symbolic retribution would have been enough for the Archbishop. Only he was completely overtaken by events.
His relationship with hunting is more symbolic than real.
It's symbolic.
It's symbolic, that thing with Danko.
If a man tears his symbolic heart from his symbolic breast, and holds it up like a torch, then he's drunk.

News and current affairs

Yet the declared American aim of building a Muslim democracy in Iraq will only enhance Turkey's symbolic importance as a role model.
Meanwhile, America's strategic partnership with Pakistan, where Obama won a significant symbolic victory by eliminating Osama bin Laden, is in tatters.
The proposed deployment of an additional 2,500 Marines in Australia is largely symbolic.
Its comeback takes the classical form of attacks on individuals, like the recent killing of a young Jew in France, or of disfiguring symbolic places, like cemeteries and synagogues.
Constitutional and legal provisions that make practicing racism a crime punishable by imprisonment have great symbolic significance and help insure - indeed, create and secure - social peace.
But, as one Indian friend explained to me, this is mainly symbolic politics for India's Left.
In that year, Domingo Cavallo, who already held the post of Secretary of the Treasury, took the highly symbolic decision to fix the value of the peso to the dollar through a fixed exchange rate.
Moreover, he executed this decision in another highly symbolic way, by setting the rate of exchange at one peso for one dollar.
New brands can assert themselves by acquiring symbolic capital.
Trade unions held a symbolic one-hour strike to back the government.
The process that produced our species in Africa granted it a number of advantages - syntactical language, advanced cognition, symbolic thinking - that favored its spread throughout the world and determined its eventual evolutionary success.
Pigments, probably used in symbolic activities such as tattooing or body painting, are found at Southern African sites since 300,000 years, but also at contemporaneous and more recent Neanderthal sites in Europe.
The intentional character and symbolic significance of burials prior to 30,000 years ago, especially those of Neanderthals, remain the subject of intense debate.
Regardless of whether these meetings are productive, unitary EU participation would be of supreme symbolic value: it would affirm a common European stance in international relations and international economic policy.
In this context, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton's meeting with dissidents during her most recent trip to Tehran was merely a symbolic gesture.
The decision by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to abolish the post of Commissioner for Enlargement has been seen as highly symbolic, leaving many in search of an alternative model.
The significance of what was accomplished stems in part from Bin Laden's symbolic importance.
Some of them are merely symbolic.
Very close species may have similar behavioral systems and, in the case of our close predecessors, the shared features probably included many traits we have preferred to consider the monopoly of our species, including symbolic behavior.
Certainly, the US government's symbolic punishment of chess legend Bobby Fischer (for playing a match in Belgrade that violated sanctions) provided no relief for the besieged city of Sarajevo.

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