symbolize
verb (used with object)
have symbolized
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present perfectof symbolize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He left behind a kosher chocolate cake iced with a key, which was to have symbolized a new opening between Iran and the United States.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
Far from the dusty, fallow fields, the record-breaking wildfires and the shrinking reservoirs that have symbolized extreme drought farther inland, towns along the Mendocino Coast are grappling with a more invisible crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and members of the Congressional Black Caucus made the moral case for removing the statues that have symbolized America's history of slavery and oppression of African Americans.
From Fox News ● Jul. 22, 2020
Donkeys have symbolized the Democratic Party since Andrew Jackson’s enemies called him a jackass in 1828.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
To the imaginative spectator their state might have symbolized the relation of women to Parliamentary politics, of which we read much in English novels, and even English newspapers.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
