symbolical
Example Sentences
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Emmanuel Grégoire, Paris’s deputy mayor in charge of urban planning and the architecture, said in an interview that the city realized it was “losing a symbolical battle over the project’s green ambitions.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 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
It was customary with the old Irish Cistercians to give their monasteries symbolical names at their foundation, and these names often denoted some local feature or peculiarity.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
