symbolically

[sim-bahl-ik-lee]

adverb

1. in a symbolic way.

2. in a way that uses written or printed symbols.

Example Sentences

The group are symbolically returning to the rehearsal room, playing off each other as much as they are playing to the audience.

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Trier opens the film with a symbolically laden camera pan across Oslo that ends on a cemetery.

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He is, symbolically and ideologically, the country’s first White president, and his understanding of what it means to be an American is very different from his predecessors.

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Gbagbo's candidacy is not only politically significant but symbolically powerful in a country where women remain largely underrepresented in national leadership.

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He recalls "coup-mongering" protesters invading three branches of government and committing "barbaric acts" in the Supreme Court, "symbolically attacking an institution fundamental to Brazilian democracy".

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