Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a symbolic manner; by types or signs; typically.
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- adverb In a
symbolic manner . - adverb By means of symbols or a symbol.
- adverb As symbols or a symbol.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by means of symbols
- adverb in a symbolic manner
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Examples
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Now I'd like to know why symbolically is in quotation marks and as is in bold.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Now I'd like to know why symbolically is in quotation marks and as is in bold.
An Unrelated Aside 2008
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So someone doesn't think of this as "God" do we really have to sprain ourselves because someone can't view the word symbolically?
Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency. Ann Althouse 2007
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So someone doesn't think of this as "God" do we really have to sprain ourselves because someone can't view the word symbolically?
Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency. Ann Althouse 2007
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Lady Chatterleys husband, symbolically, is impotent in the actual physical sense.
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His letting go of the Ring title symbolically released his lineal claim as well.
BoxingScene.com 2009
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In my opinion, this transcends the Obama phenomenon (though that is certainly both proximate and contributory), and, in this sense, is potentially a very healthy harbinger, if not one without pain across the spectrum (including, perhaps especially, for all of the "Clintons"--in this case, I use that designation symbolically--of the world).
Are we seeing an ugly racial edge to the Clinton campaign? Ann Althouse 2008
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And she's not the first to get her "woman" chevrons ripped from her sleeves and her sword symbolically broken over it.
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism." Ann Althouse 2008
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Byron uses the word symbolically for Venetian commerce.] [383] [Pierre is the hero of Otway's _Venice Preserved_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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The emergence in the early years of the past decade of what has continued to be called symbolically the Group of 77, but which is now composed of 119 countries, can be considered in the strict sense as a real sign of the times.
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