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symbolically

adv
/ˌsɪmˈbɒlɪklɪ//ˌsɪmˈbɑːlɪklɪ/US

Etymology

From symbolical + -ly or symbolic + -ally.

Definitions

  1. In a symbolic manner.

    • Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.

  2. By means of symbols or a symbol.

  3. As symbols or a symbol.

    • In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.

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Derived

nonsymbolically

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at symbolically. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at symbolically. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at symbolically

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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