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[sim-buhl] / ˈsɪm bəl /


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Cathy Ames is a complicated symbol, as the countless people who glommed on to Clancy’s case want her to be.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

If they can’t afford an Hermès bag or another pair of Chanel flats, they might just splurge on a different kind of status symbol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The shell was also a widely recognized symbol associated with pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Speaking about the artwork, Elisabeth said the piece was a symbol of "togetherness".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

And then, while she was staring at it, the words suddenly changed into the familiar wing-in-the-clouds symbol of Sky Trails.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Such objects can become symbols of our relationships, Ekerdt said: “We keep things because they represent ties and reciprocity with other people.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Since then, the Vikings have become such well-known symbols that they are now recognized around the world.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

In France there has been a ban on wearing any conspicuous religious symbols, including headscarves, turbans and kippas, in schools for more than 20 years.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The high cost of the books reflects an astonishing input of labor: Monotype casters form letters, numbers and symbols from lead alloy heated to 680 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

In addition to the spoken word, their communication methods include petroglyphs, wampum belts, and books with symbols painted on bark cloth.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

These cherubs symboled the joy of life, and when Allegri wished to sign his name, he drew a cherub.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard

Beware Of the symboled Curse in the Bondman there!

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Chopin reached sublimity through sweet sounds; Crane attained the same heights through the sense of sight and words that symboled color, shapes and scenes.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

His jaw was the jaw of courage; his chin meant purpose; his nose symboled intellect, poise and power; his brow spelled brain.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard

Ah, could the world but gaze upon that Christ With heart attuned unto the symboled love That makes his face a radiant miracle!

From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Charles Hamilton Musgrove

That with the earth symbolled forth sudden, or perhaps violent, death; that with the water, emigration or ship-wreck; while that with the ring, of course a wedding and domestic happiness.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

It was in my heart, and must have been symbolled in my countenance.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

Say, then, reader, is not every element of thought which can arise between a Christian and his Creator symbolled forth here in equal beauty and grandeur?

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray

The Word in truth is symbolled forth by that straight stem on which I hang.

From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead

Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symbolled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

Be it the birthday wreath she wears Fresh and fair, and symbolling The young number of her years, The sweet blushes of her spring.

From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray




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