totemic
adjective
to·tem·ic
tō-ˈte-mik 
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Tesla’s fan base fracturing into two warring camps The board could make a case that restoring Musk’s pay package would ensure the totemic entrepreneur doesn’t quit as its CEO.
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Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
The point of the new biopic mode was to reveal totemic figures in a more complex way.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
Pink was a totemic color for Mr. Cormier, who deployed it in a seasonal installation in Montreal called Pink Balls — 170,000 strands of pink plastic spheres suspended over Sainte-Catherine Street East, a predominantly gay neighborhood, that transformed it into a pedestrian mall.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
One piece, the totemic Big Lamp, combines marble and stone in the base, while a textured palm-fiber shade brings softness to the form.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
Huma Bhabha David Zwirner (February 22–April 6) Bhabha’s rough-hewn, totemic sculptures depict demons, deities, and warning spirits.
—Vulture, 3 Jan. 2024
Yet Tesla’s totemic CEO held out hope to shareholders bitter at losing the industry’s top spot to the new number one, BYD of China.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
But Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer score feels like the most totemic of the bunch.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
For whatever reason, book bans are once again being promoted as a totemic protector of children.
—Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
The point of the new biopic mode was to reveal totemic figures in a more complex way.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
Pink was a totemic color for Mr. Cormier, who deployed it in a seasonal installation in Montreal called Pink Balls — 170,000 strands of pink plastic spheres suspended over Sainte-Catherine Street East, a predominantly gay neighborhood, that transformed it into a pedestrian mall.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
One piece, the totemic Big Lamp, combines marble and stone in the base, while a textured palm-fiber shade brings softness to the form.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
Huma Bhabha David Zwirner (February 22–April 6) Bhabha’s rough-hewn, totemic sculptures depict demons, deities, and warning spirits.
—Vulture, 3 Jan. 2024
Yet Tesla’s totemic CEO held out hope to shareholders bitter at losing the industry’s top spot to the new number one, BYD of China.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
But Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer score feels like the most totemic of the bunch.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
For whatever reason, book bans are once again being promoted as a totemic protector of children.
—Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
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“Totemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totemic. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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