symbolic
adjective
serving as a symbol of something (often followed byof ).
symbolical
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a variation of
symbolic.
Example Sentences
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Emmanuel Grégoire, Paris’s deputy mayor in charge of urban planning and the architecture, said in an interview that the city realized it was “losing a symbolical battle over the project’s green ambitions.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad meets German FM Heiko Maas during a symbolical start of the lectures "Women, Peace and Security" in Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2021.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
Yet, by bringing Alaska within range, the new test is an unambiguous game-changer in both symbolical and practical terms.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2017
She challenged Babbage to consider whether there could be “a mathematical formula ... on which the solution depends, and which can be put into symbolical language”.
From Nature ● Sep. 1, 2015
The mace is but a stick of office, being ornamental and merely symbolical.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
