emblematized

Definition of emblematizednext
past tense of emblematize
as in represented
to serve as a material counterpart of the burned-out church emblematizes how the religious strife has destroyed that nation

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  • Price, who has represented the district since 2013, faces a dozen felony charges, including grand theft by embezzlement of public funds, conflict of interest and perjury.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Henry Waxman, a congressman who represented the city’s West Side, used the incident as a pretext to propose a bill in Congress that banned the use of federal funds for tunnelling under a large swath of Wilshire.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
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  • Perhaps some of it is the yawning gap beween promise and reality, symbolized by Altman himself.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The cuttlefish bone, meanwhile, symbolized the bird that had literally flown the coop.
    Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Emblematized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emblematized. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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