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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of symbolize.

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Examples

  • “Loose sweaters mean—floppy,” Scarpino whispered as the coughing subsided, but before he could utter the word symbolized by the letter“T,” he expired.

    Carmen Scarpino, Pioneering Wise Guy, Dead at 78 Con Chapman 2011

  • But the history of the word "economy" in Chinese - symbolized with the characters "经济" (pronounced jing ji, and sounds like "jing-g") only entered into Chinese speech in 1926 with the publication of Gan Nai Guang's (甘乃光) book titled

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English zachary_franklin 2010

  • Garth told stories about blue-collar people who felt good about what their bad life symbolized, which is the same reason Born to Run will never seem unimportant.

    The Passion of the Garth Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Garth told stories about blue-collar people who felt good about what their bad life symbolized, which is the same reason Born to Run will never seem unimportant.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Garth told stories about blue-collar people who felt good about what their bad life symbolized, which is the same reason Born to Run will never seem unimportant.

    Eating the Dinosaur Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Garth told stories about blue-collar people who felt good about what their bad life symbolized, which is the same reason Born to Run will never seem unimportant.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Garth told stories about blue-collar people who felt good about what their bad life symbolized, which is the same reason Born to Run will never seem unimportant.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • To form a master work of art, the idea symbolized must be pure and noble; the technical execution, faultless.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • The symbolism here is of a peculiar and unusual character, depending not on any real analogy in the form or use of the symbol to the idea symbolized, but simply on a double or compound meaning of the word.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Like the ancient Jews, who took the symbol for the idea symbolized, too many modern Christians (or Jews, for such Christians are scriptural Jews,) adopt the form for the substance, and make it of infinite account.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

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