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or catachrestical
as in symbolic
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Adjective
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On a broader avenue, people stood on the sidewalks, cheering and mourning and taking pictures with their smartphones—thousands of real-time, utterly personal interpretations of the Pope’s final symbolic journey.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025 -
Another blockbuster stone had important symbolic weight.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Musk has sought, without publicly producing evidence, to portray USAID and other programs cut this year as emblematic of fraud and waste in the federal government.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2025
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Its publication in 2008 launched a whole dystopian subgenre and became emblematic of the rising prominence of teen books.—
Charlie Jane Anders,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Coogler presents a provocatively Africanist view of Black American experience, and does so with exuberant inventiveness; the uncompromising political essence of his allegorical vision is expressed with aesthetic delight.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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Maybe that’s more blessing than curse in our age of baldly allegorical horror movies.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Catachrestic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catachrestic. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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