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発音

• ハイフネーション: sym‧bo‧lic
• 韻: -ɒlɪk

形容詞

symbolic (comparative more symbolic, superlative most symbolic)

1. Pertaining to a symbol.
   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 3, archived from the original on 5 December 2019, page 21:

     Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

2. Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.

   a symbolic gesture

   • 2023 June 17, Tom Perkins, “‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2023:

     They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.

   • 2026 January 1, Max Pilley, “MTV shuts down final music-only channels with ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’”, in NME‎:

     As a sign-off, they played the video for 1979 new wave classic, a symbolic choice at it was also the first video that MTV ever aired when it launched in the US in 1981.

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