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You must have seen the iconic image of two men standing with black-gloved fists raised in protest.
The yellow jersey of the Tour de France is one of sport's most enduring and iconic symbols.
Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks" has since become iconic.
Thelma and Louise was an instantly iconic feminist road movie.
The Ford Taurus was one of the automotive industry's truly iconic brands.
I think his work was so iconic.

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iconic | American Dictionary

iconic
adjective
us/ɑɪˈkɑn·ɪk/
relating to or characteristic of a famous person or thing that represents something of importance:
Scenes of Parisians dancing in the streets remain iconic images from World War II.

Examples of iconic

iconic
But finding iconic information in the low level, or middle-level, visual system does not explain why the world looks iconic to us.
Consideration is given as to why some inquiries reach 'iconic' status and the role of the media in this process is discussed.
When a composer chooses iconic recordings and texts, the overt conversation with the past can capture the power of shared, communal memory.
The second finding is that there is an indexical or even iconic relationship (as argued here) between vernaculars and masculinity.
In the following excerpt, the customer likewise produces an iconic hand gesture in combination with a term.
Iconic gestures draw their communicative strength from their perceived similarity to a phenomenon simultaneously encoded in speech.
Inversely, iconic representations do not always need a legend as the relations between sound and graphical forms are much more intuitive.
Commemorations reflect and accommodate the iconic character of war in the twentieth century, and that is what gives them their audiences and footing.
These were presented as iconic of the absurd.
That is, the phonological formational elements of a spoken language may also be mapped onto specific meaning components to create iconic forms.
These ideas were to become an iconic source for design as well as a new direction in design research.
Visually he was more iconic than the other street urchins in the comic and was the only character to look at and address readers directly.
Figure 1 summarizes the averages (and standard deviations) of the gesture rate by language, for both iconic and noniconic gestures.
Gestures and cross-linguistic transfer our results demonstrate that most of the differences between monolinguals and bilinguals were in their use of iconic gestures.
No consistent results have been reported across studies with bilinguals' use of iconic gestures relative to language proficiency.
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