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Wearing a grey hoodie sweatshirt with 'Fear' written upside down Malinin symbolically swotted away comments which represented the negative impact of social media.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
The Constitutional Convention was symbolically presided over by the retired Gen. George Washington, who sat throughout in a chair with a gilded half sun at its top.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
The group are symbolically returning to the rehearsal room, playing off each other as much as they are playing to the audience.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Trier opens the film with a symbolically laden camera pan across Oslo that ends on a cemetery.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
And I submit, then, that the racial tensions that menace Americans today have little to do with real antipathy—on the contrary, indeed—and are involved only symbolically with color.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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