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Example sentences for: icon

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The NYT and WP run versions of the same striking photo, a quintessential L.A. news helicopter POV depicting a chain of kids holding hands on their way to safety, recalling an icon of pre-Uzi school days--a string of paper dolls.
The benefit of such pathway and circuit diagrams is, of course, that they help us infer and track how a change in a 'state property' (for example, metabolite concentration versus electrical voltage) of one icon acts via an 'action property' (metabolic flux rate versus electrical current) on the state properties of linked icons.
Bill Gates, no matter how big that company has become, still hangs over it like a living icon.
"The most groundbreaking kitchen-sink sitcom since All in the Family ," declares Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly . Most agree, however, that the show declined in its last years, especially after Roseanne's character won the lottery and the family forsook its proletarian roots--while the actress herself mutated from caustic social critic into pop icon.
She became an icon, an unreal, idealized symbol of women's achievement.