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Adjective
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As was the case with the white-and-green dress for her Pakistan tour, Elizabeth, in her fashion choices, sought not only to avoid giving offense but to offer symbolic ingratiation, and among the most fascinating garments on display are those representing diplomatic dressing.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026 -
For many young Indian women, the change also carries symbolic weight.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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It has also been viewed by many as an allegorical commentary on first century Christianity and Rome, and has been seen as an impending apocalyptic prophecy by generations ever since.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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Rather than the regular crimson color emblematic of the red carpet, a black carpet was symbolically chosen as the centerpiece to celebrate Black artists.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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The calls are emblematic of how this stock has fallen from grace.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Sylleptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sylleptic. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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