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

The two forts of Brown and Scott, which he had erected and named, he designed should be symbolical of the defence he would make, and the battle he would fight.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler