symptomatic

Example Sentences

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The question is whether that caution is traveling far enough upstream, before patients are symptomatic.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

But he is symptomatic of the America in which we live.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

This month’s Rafale deal is symptomatic of the historic Indian tendency to meander on defense modernization, Sameer Lalwani, an expert on the Indian military at the German Marshall Fund, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Jean‑Paul Domin, an economist at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, said the trend, emerging over the past three or four years, was symptomatic of a system in crisis.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Like John, he had lumps on his neck, but in Alcante’s case they were in fact symptomatic of scrofula.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French