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"But you talk as if money was simply an abstract symbol."

Israel is no longer an abstract symbol of hope and unity for the Jewish people.

Further, we created an abstract symbol that gave a more high-tech impression.

Either the above or more abstract symbols, especially crosses.

The interpretation of abstract symbols has had an important role in religion and psychoanalysis.

The others have a variety of mainly abstract symbols.

Very few children of age 3 or 4 have the cognitive capacity to attribute meaning to abstract symbols, like written words.

Some designers say abstract symbols were a reflection of companies undergoing an identity crisis.

Which then were rendered over time into abstract symbols?"

Cartography studies the representation of the Earth's surface with abstract symbols (map making).

You must tell me quickly if these early systems utilized pictographs or abstract symbols?"

They theorized that abstract symbols with similar shapes might represent the same letter, or groups of letters.

But mah-jongg tiles feature abstract symbols that have to be matched up.

It lent those abstract symbols verve and emotion appropriate to combat.

Animal carvings, human figures, and many other abstract symbols are sketched on the mountains.

These books were not collections of abstract symbols called words, printed on paper; they were real events that had happened to me.

Henceforth, architectural practice would consist largely of manipulating abstract symbols.

Having made a revolution over unfair taxation, they thought of government support in terms of dollars spent, not abstract symbols.

Cartooning techniques such as caricature, motion lines, and abstract symbols are often employed.

Another, on the bank, had carvings on its face, abstract symbols that he didn't recognize.

They're so addicted that they prefer abstract symbols to the concrete things which symbols represent.

But you have a remarkable gift for seeing everything in terms of screws, wires, and lenses, while I'm still thinking abstract symbols."

Her paintings are full of religious imagery, spiritual icons, cryptic signage and abstract symbols.

Using abstract symbols, the artists explored their spirituality and the connection between mysticism and science.

The work became an abstract symbol for pilots who died in World War II.