symbolical
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Many had been bracing for a severe Russian response to Saturday’s attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge, which analysts described as a significant blow to Moscow, if more symbolical than practical.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad meets German FM Heiko Maas during a symbolical start of the lectures "Women, Peace and Security" in Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2021.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
Yet, by bringing Alaska within range, the new test is an unambiguous game-changer in both symbolical and practical terms.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2017
In other words, the blot exists in the “realm of the symbolical or metaphorical”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2017
As it is ordinarily taken up, “ideas” are believed to be something in us which is representative or symbolical of something truly real outside us.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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