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or catachrestical
as in symbolic
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Adjective
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By then, John had died, and a new Pope, Paul VI—the former Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini—had gone to Jerusalem, seeking symbolic expression of the new Catholic-Jewish amity.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025 -
Changing the terminology the committee uses is a symbolic move that reflects the support among many Republicans in Congress for recognizing Israeli sovereignty there.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Chu’s film feels driven, too, by a specific youthful unrest emblematic of a wider generational crisis in modern Taiwan: Politics may not surface directly in this banquet of ear- and eye-candy, but the filmmaker’s heady, dreamy vision isn’t wholly estranged from the here and now.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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But behind the arthritic movements was the same fierceness emblematic of Paquita.—
Alex Zaragoza,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The allegorical painting is routinely interpreted as a message that death is always just around the corner.—
Ivan Amato,
Scientific American,
30 Jan. 2025
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The allegorical imagery partly found its allure from costume designer Lisy Christl.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Catachrestic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catachrestic. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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