symbolical

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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

She challenged Babbage to consider whether there could be “a mathematical formula ... on which the solution depends, and which can be put into symbolical language”.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2015

The Three Children in the fiery furnace;—very common as symbolical of martyrdom.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.