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• “His name symbolizes an era which left in the republic the brilliant vestiges of free government.”

  Simon & Schuster: World’s Great Men of Color

• “What it symbolizes is very subjective ... even if an author keeps writing the same ending over and over again ... maybe he or she is writing about a waitress they met one day at a truckstop and just can't seem to get out of their head.”

  TwoP review of Planet of the Dead

• “What she symbolizes is her strength and justifies her existence.”

  The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists

• “What it symbolizes is never quite clear, but I would venture to guess that it represents Paul's need to help his brother.”

  MOVIE REVIEW: Light and the Sufferer

• “And it is that sense, that profound exceptionalism, that is probably what the phrase symbolizes more than anything else: a belief that the times are special, pivotal, important.”

  Ray Brescia: Out with the Old: Farewell to "the NMTEs"

• “A name symbolizes identity, sometimes who "owns" us, as happened with slaves, and as happens in traditional marriages when a woman gives up her last name.”

  Deborah Jiang Stein: Naming, and Why It Matters

• “This coin symbolizes the deep spiritual attachment of First Nations people to the moon, which is frequently portrayed by their ceremonial masks.”

  Latest 2008 Products from the Royal Canadian Mint : Coin Collecting News

• “Jason Atherton, who oversees several of Mr. Ramsay's restaurants, says the name symbolizes a level of quality and service diners can expect.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Reality Check, Please

• “The name symbolizes the massive task facing the mainly U. S.-funded charity which feeds about 150 young children daily.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The paternal authority that the Burkeian oak symbolizes is "dismantled" by age and tempered by the beautiful.”

  Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape

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