totem
Example Sentences
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If they made it to New York or London, they would start over as an analyst, at the bottom of the totem pole.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
"It is a totem of celebration for Chinese people and people around the world," he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
It’s an indelibly amusing and heartbreaking totem, suggesting play and suffering, and eventually manifesting wounds both real and internalized.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Andersen goes on, rather self-indulgently, to name-check every cultural totem from Aeron chairs and Alessi teakettles to “Mad Men,” and somewhat underplays the political significance of his own findings.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025
“I want to help you carve the blank space on your totem, the space you saved for your dance of anger.”
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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