totemic
adjective
to·tem·ic
tō-ˈte-mik 
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Call it hybrid, genre-bending, unclassifiable—those totemic labels of the contemporary literary zeitgeist fall short.
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Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
The restaurant will be launching lunch eventually—with, naturally, Sunday roasts, a pub trapping as proper and totemic as malt vinegar and newsprint, or pastry with a piscine head sticking out.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Most of the lamps on view this week and next are works of sculpture in themselves, from a towering totemic floor lamp to a slight but dynamic nightlight.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 17 May 2026
Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.
—Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
The restaurant will be launching lunch eventually—with, naturally, Sunday roasts, a pub trapping as proper and totemic as malt vinegar and newsprint, or pastry with a piscine head sticking out.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Most of the lamps on view this week and next are works of sculpture in themselves, from a towering totemic floor lamp to a slight but dynamic nightlight.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 17 May 2026
Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.
—Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
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“Totemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totemic. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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