noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
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Originally, there was to be a space for a national emblem .
■ VERB
become
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Mrs Chan had become the most visible emblem of Hong Kong's autonomy in the past 3 1 / 2 years.
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Within the confines of the painting it becomes a silent emblem of protest, a reminder of political alternatives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Scotland's emblem is the thistle.
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The hammer and sickle is the emblem of the Communist Party.
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The jacket had a tiny Olympic emblem on the pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.
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Embroidered all over with gold and silver threads, it incorporates a Garter emblem .
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However, they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design.
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In addition, a gun is an emblem of the male as hunter.
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It was an exclusive circle of friends as well as an emblem of a time and place.
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Part of this conquest involved reducing the complex and archaic Goddesses to emblems of particular qualities.
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The family floral emblem included the Juniper.
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The skyscrapers of Manhattan dazzled him as emblems of Western industrial progress.