symbolic
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On July 5, a symbolic soccer match and a concert will be held in Monterrey’s Fundidora Park to protest Ternium as one of the city’s most polluting companies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2026
Later, Mayor Mamdani was to award the Knicks the symbolic key to the city at City Hall, where team owner James Dolan said an all-star show was planned.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Owners of several vehicles plying the streets rejoiced with symbolic honks and screams, most of them either waving the flag or hanging samples by their car windows.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
The scale of the drawdown was largely symbolic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
Ruby said, “Probably they consider this some sort of organized resistance, or symbolic act.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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