Collocations with symbol
These are words often used in combination with symbol.
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appropriate symbol
Therefore, it could be used as an appropriate symbol for nourishment.
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graphic symbol
Thus, the participants were consistent in the ways they constructed two distinct types of complex sentences on a graphic symbol display.
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linguistic symbol
But besides their instrumental functions, linguistic symbols can themselves represent cultural values.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
phonetic symbol
I reached back into my undergraduate memory and remembered the phonetic symbol for the bilabial fricative and gave it my own personal phonemic status - /ph/.
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potent symbol
This debate is a potent symbol of things to come.
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symbol of freedom
It appears dark and threatening, and yet is a symbol of freedom, of the infinite.
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symbol of love
The connotation is a symbol of love and affection.
symbol of prosperity
At that time, pollution was seen as a symbol of prosperity.
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symbol of royalty
Because the leopard skin is a symbol of royalty, the chiefs indicate both their submission and their indispensability as they carry the skin to the ruler.$
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symbol of unity
They cannot tolerate something which is a symbol of unity.
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symbol of wealth
They always want more children, since children are a symbol of wealth, strength and vitality.
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traditional symbol
But in fact, more traditional symbol-rule accounts can also implement competition accounts.
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universal symbol
He viewed theatre as a universal symbol of existence.
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to make problems, difficulties, or disagreements less serious or easier to solve, usually by talking to the people involved
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