emblem
noun
an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, class of persons, etc.; symbol.
emblematically
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a word derived from
emblem.
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a word derived from
emblematic.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the only screen actor as emblematically American as Jimmy Stewart is John Wayne; certainly the most definitively American film genre is the western.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
For while Whitman was possibly the most emblematically American poet that America ever produced, he presented himself as a relatively modest creature of the immediate here and now.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2020
The production design is sharply and emblematically detailed, and Rodriguez highlights it with a welcome graphic clarity.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 13, 2019
Read today, the book’s intellectually slapstick vision of corporatism run amok embeds it within the early to mid-1990s as firmly and emblematically as “The Simpsons” and grunge music.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Next fourteen standards, upon which appear the proper simbols of his office, such as the dragon, tiger, phœnix, flying tortoise, and other winged creatures of fancy, emblematically exhibited.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
