symbolic

Example Sentences

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The resolution, while not enforceable and largely symbolic, displays the simmering discomfort in the Summer Games' next host city over Wasserman.

From BBC

The waiver may carry more symbolic than financial weight for Moscow.

From Barron's

For many diaspora members, however, the journey towards citizenship is not only symbolic.

From Barron's

Instead, the burial appears to have been part of a deliberate and symbolic ceremony that followed the killings.

From Science Daily

For the latter half of samurai history, armor was a facade, a largely symbolic display of authority for an archetypal military class whose members became bureaucrats and eventually pop-culture icons.

From The Wall Street Journal