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or catachrestical
as in symbolic
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According to an article by Piedmont Healthcare, resolutions often serve as a symbolic reset button, fueled by a surge of dopamine.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025 -
In terms of the film’s relevance, the narrative sets up a symbolic situation that offers a glimmer of hope.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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For many, Peltier's release is a long-overdue act of justice, particularly for Indigenous communities that see his case as emblematic of a broader history of systemic injustice.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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High-Profile Failures That Defined DEI’s Retreat The public dismantling of DEI programs by major corporations like Meta, Amazon, McDonald’s, Walmart, and Ford is emblematic of the broader retreat, highlighting the fragility of corporate commitments to diversity and inclusion.—
Gillian Oakenfull,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 Dec. 2024
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Even Elio Vittorini’s Conversation in Sicily (1941), the most celebrated anti-Fascist Italian novel of the war years, operates in a murky, allegorical register; it couldn’t have been published otherwise.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Catachrestic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catachrestic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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