The fight to force Justice’s empire to follow pollution rules, the groups say, symbolizes the larger ongoing fight over how aggressively to regulate an industry that remains politically powerful, even as its economic influence declines.
This Billionaire Governor’s Coal Company Might Get a Big Break From His Own Regulators|by Ken Ward Jr.|September 17, 2020|ProPublica
Yet rather than symbolize how polluted our environment is, the Cuyahoga has become a poster child for the EPA’s success.
51 Years Later, the Cuyahoga River Burns Again|Wes Siler|August 28, 2020|Outside Online
It symbolizes changing the nature of what a cat is in order to better suit your purposes.
Toilet training your cat isn’t as great as it sounds|Candice Wang|August 27, 2020|Popular Science
It used to symbolize a time when women were confined to housework.
Women are finally reclaiming the ‘house dress’|Claire Zillman, reporter|August 21, 2020|Fortune
So the mushroom cloud that resulted symbolizes one of science’s most disturbing successes.
How understanding nature made the atomic bomb inevitable|Tom Siegfried|August 6, 2020|Science News
But for some teens ISIS seems to symbolize power and purpose, a great drama promising deliverance from the humdrum.
How ISIS’s Colorado Girls Were Caught|Michael Daly|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She seems, if anything, to symbolize an even more incremental progressivism than President Obama.
Inside the World of Hillary Superfans|David Freedlander|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The practice, which emerged during the eighth century, was meant to symbolize wealth and class.
Corsets, Muslin Disease, and More of the Deadly Fashion Trends|The Fashion Beast Team|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Colorful inflated onion domes appeared to symbolize the birth of urbanization.
Sorry Putin, the Sochi Opening Ceremony Was Totally Gay|Tim Teeman|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They chanted slogans and flashed four fingers, which has come to symbolize a pro-Morsi camp violently quashed by the authorities.
From President to Prisoner: Mohamed Morsi’s Trial Starts in Egypt|Vivian Salama|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And it seemed to symbolize Annie's life for her, in its cramped and pruned and smoky regularity.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories|Arnold Bennett
Let us not imitate another's form unless it symbolize a truth to us.
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3)|Theodore Parker
We have grown wiser, and know what such offerings are meant to symbolize—we are to surrender our liberty to the very last grain!
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2|Ernst Eckstein
A parable is a way of teaching in which natural objects are used to represent or symbolize spiritual realities.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary|John Kline
Fitly, indeed, do the rags worn by the monks of true Buddhism symbolize the miserable patchwork of its own self-righteousness.
Buddhism, In its Connexion With Brahmanism and Hinduism, and In Its Contrast with Christianity|Sir Monier Monier-Williams
British Dictionary definitions for symbolize
symbolize
symbolise
/ (ˈsɪmbəˌlaɪz) /
verb
(tr)to serve as or be a symbol of
(tr usually foll by by) to represent by a symbol or symbols