sylleptic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sylleptic
Adjective
  • Read more: The Real Danger of the Trump-Putin Summit That is not to say that the summit was chosen solely for symbolic reasons.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Their deaths marked not just the end of two singular careers, but the symbolic closing of a cultural chapter — one where larger-than-life personas still had to be built in real time, without hashtags or viral cycles to carry them.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • If this is the allegorical virgin birth, Pandora edition, then Kiri’s other parent would be Pandora’s version of God: Eywa, whom the Na’vi generally engage with in the form of a tree, or flora (seed bearer — get it?).
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 July 2025
  • This reading reduces Euridice to the allegorical and therefore to the banal, quite the opposite of what Hoffman does.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is emblematic of transit leaders’ lack of fiscal prudence.
    Micky Horstman, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The military’s invocation of the Tesla brand is emblematic of the tightening relationship not only between the Pentagon and Elon Musk, but with Big Tech more broadly, according to American University foreign policy professor Gordon Adams.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Sylleptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sylleptic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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