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They chanted slogans and flashed four fingers, which has come to symbolize a pro-Morsi camp violently quashed by the authorities.

And it seemed to symbolize Annie's life for her, in its cramped and pruned and smoky regularity.

Let us not imitate another's form unless it symbolize a truth to us.

We have grown wiser, and know what such offerings are meant to symbolize—we are to surrender our liberty to the very last grain!

A parable is a way of teaching in which natural objects are used to represent or symbolize spiritual realities.

Fitly, indeed, do the rags worn by the monks of true Buddhism symbolize the miserable patchwork of its own self-righteousness.