symbols

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About 5,200 years ago, people in what is now Iraq and Syria began pressing symbols into clay to record information.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

As a system of symbols with its own particular language, astrology can help some people make sense of emotions and events, bringing a semblance of structure to the apparent chaos of everyday life.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

In the decades before his arrival, the court had handed down steady rulings barring taxpayer funds for religious schools or religious ceremonies or symbols in public schools or city parks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

As applied to religious symbols, Lemon led to a series of fractured decisions from 1984 to 2010 that pleased no one and provided widely discordant direction to lower courts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

With the boxes colored in and filled with symbols, it was like a secret language, a code only knitters could decipher.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows