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How to use the word symbolically in a Sentence?

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Considering the cost and difficulty managing such apps, coupled with concerns expressed by the public over data security and privacy – not to mention the political win local governments get by symbolically putting zero-Covid to bed – dismantling those systems is par for the course.

Kendra Schaefer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that Secretary Austin has been very focused on is that we should not be providing the Ukrainians systems they can’t repair, they can’t sustain, and that they over the long term can’t afford because it’s not helpful, and this isn’t about a news cycle or what’s symbolically valuable, it’s what will actually help Ukraine on the battlefield.

Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's symbolically very important ; The Donbas supplied Soviet Union with raw materials.

Markian Dobczansky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It sends a message... that a new page has turned, rules have changed, arab states are no longer bound by Pan-Arab solidarities, sensitivities or causes, including Palestine -- not even symbolically.

Ezzedine Fishere

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was imposed symbolically by Trump, they knew it wouldn't have much of an impact.

Mehran Haghirian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Previous rounds of sanctions have been imposed symbolically, and given the very serious concerns we have over Russia dismembering one of its neighbors... it behooves the government to go and put some teeth behind these measures.

Tyler Kustra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The bull symbolically means strength, determination and increase. It has 2 horns and similarly, I believe 2022 will be a bullish year. This is the year of double. Receive it.

Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

Symbolically, the transition towards the succession is already underway.

Ed Owens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is not a huge market, but is important symbolically.

Adam Segal

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Symbolically it is retreating from an international presence.

Leon Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The United States endorsement is politically important, symbolically important, but in order to see a regime change, there are some things lacking, over the years President Nicolas Maduro's been very clever about co-opting their support, sharing economic benefits with them -- the military now has an oil services company.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was a six-year-old refugee kid, and here I am giving a book I wrote, to honor my father, basically, to a member of the royal family, it's great honor for me to be able to say thank you, symbolically, to the British people who saved my life.

Henry Foner

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The situation is certainly horrific, and I think that symbolically this move represents for many Palestinians the end of their hopes for a two-state solution.

Jeff Merkley

Found on CNN
6 years ago

No one expects these states to do anything but issue declarations, but you have to take it as symbolically important.

Michael Rubin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It gives the UAW a significant new tool in trying to organize the foreign automakers in the south. Symbolically, it’s going to be huge.

Dennis Cuneo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It gives the UAW a significant new tool in trying to organize the foreign automakers in the South. Symbolically, it’s going to be huge.

Dennis Cuneo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Is this a big sacrifice for retailers? No. But, symbolically, it's a good step.

David Satterfield

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Erica Jong

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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