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The country's third largest city has also become a symbol of the corruption that has dogged Albania's painful transition to capitalism, with Albanians paying with their health for recurring scandals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

“It certainly represents victory and all those attributes about the Olympics. But it also brings people together, and it’s a symbol of hope and what the Olympic movement really does for everyone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

For Livia, who performs it for a university recital, it is her greatest triumph and a symbol of her hubris, because mastering it seems to presage a fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“When I was little,” Natalie said at last, “I made up a fantasyland called Mariposa. Its symbol was a blue butterfly.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Since the club's takeover by deep-pocketed Abu Dhabi investors in 2008, long-neglected districts between the stadium and the city centre have become symbols of the northern city's rebirth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Here were the most active stock-market ticker symbols as of 5 a.m.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Critics interpreted the statue as a commentary on the consequences of blind allegiance to symbols.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

It has a bridal shop overflowing with sparkly gowns and a coffee shop serving up lattes with Chinese symbols for happiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Danny realized they were all symbols for luck.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Gold stamens set in silver filigrane Reveal the treasures which we idolize; And all the cost of struggle for the prize Is symboled by a secret blood-red stain.

From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Ellen Marriage

At its lowest, the instinct that boosts us up to peep over our neighbor's transom, symboled by a knot-hole.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard

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

Nature's heart, with the spring joy put back and deadened, symboled the melancholy that had fallen upon Bridgeport.

From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton

Around her limbs a veil of woven mist Wavers, and turns from fibered amethyst To textured crystal; through which symboled bars Of silver burn, and cabalistic stars Of nebulous gold.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein

"Fyve wellys"—there symbolled trace, Hushing this mortal strife,— "Of pitty, merci, comfort, gracy, And everlastingh lyffe."

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

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

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

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

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

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

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

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