sylleptic

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Adjective
  • The summit did not happen, with Aoun saying a security deal needed to be in place and Israeli attacks needed to end before such a landmark symbolic meeting.
    CBS News, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Advocates and some council members have expressed concerns that the new rules may be symbolic and unenforceable.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • Naturalists and later scientists also protested such allegorical uses of primates.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 18 May 2026
  • In the old allegorical star books, the goddess holds some spikes of wheat in each hand and her brightest star — Spica — glows in one of the ears of grain hanging from her left hand.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • For producer Pedro Krull at Aguda Cinema, the project is emblematic of a wider regional surge, with the company positioning itself as a creative incubator for emerging Alagoas voices.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Through the character’s complex and often tense relationships with her teenage daughter, her sister and her mother, as well as with other women in her village, Dusabejambo has crafted a story that’s both emblematic and achingly specific.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
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“Sylleptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sylleptic. Accessed 23 May. 2026.

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