totemic
adjective
to·tem·ic
tō-ˈte-mik 
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Bryan Mbeumo, Benjamin Sesko and Leny Yoro will have to play at their maximum if United are to win, but the team’s most essential/totemic figure remains Fernandes.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The totemic power of Apple is running out of time to reset expectations around AI to its own advantage.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The actual work of art, with its totemic aura, its visible brushstrokes, perhaps with the fingerprints of the artist embedded somewhere in its paint, was right in front of me.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
High-rise New York apartments have acquired totemic significance for the superrich.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
The totemic power of Apple is running out of time to reset expectations around AI to its own advantage.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The actual work of art, with its totemic aura, its visible brushstrokes, perhaps with the fingerprints of the artist embedded somewhere in its paint, was right in front of me.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
High-rise New York apartments have acquired totemic significance for the superrich.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
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“Totemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totemic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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