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Recent Examples of logogramCuneiform became syllabic, repurposing its logograms, or word symbols, as sounds.—Longreads,
1 July 2025 Most interestingly, many of the artists used logograms (a symbol to represent a word) rooted in the use of homophones.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Nov. 2023
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who unlawfully entered the country in 2011, has become a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Remember, the heroic symbols that Ronald Reagan deployed so effectively were swiped from liberalism’s salad days in the Thirties and Forties.
The sixth-year coach locks his eyes on the man’s shirt and sees a Carolina Panthers insignia.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
The event has been held annually since 1948, and at the annual service, the sovereign invests any new Companions with the Order's insignia in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle.
From the peaks of the Sahyadri mountains, crests of the Western Ghats which loom dramatically above us, the Vavali stream flows down to the lake-like Pawna reservoir.
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Horatio Clare,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Behind the judge’s chair hung a massive crest of an eagle with wings spread, its fierce beak turned stage right.