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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said his nation's forces would respond "symmetrically" to Russian attacks during the ceasefire, calling Easter "a time of peace".

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

The remains of four arms sprout symmetrically from the shoulders of a gracefully elongated 11th-century torso, listed as Vishnu, possibly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Where women were at the center of “Mare,” men are the subject here — a cop and a criminal, symmetrically arranged — messed-up middle-aged single fathers who care about their kids.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

In their new paper, Judt and his co-authors referred to that mode of rapid intensification as a marathon because the storm keeps intensifying symmetrically at a moderate pace while the primary vortex steadily amplifies.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

The boat was symmetrically shaped, with rounded ends that were hard to tell apart.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel