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- noun the state of being
iconic (in all meanings)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In terms of "iconicity", Honey Ryder is undoubtedly one of the top images of franchise.
CommanderBond.net 2009
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In terms of "iconicity", Honey Ryder is undoubtedly one of the top images of franchise.
CommanderBond.net 2009
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In terms of "iconicity", Honey Ryder is undoubtedly one of the top images of franchise.
CommanderBond.net 2009
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In a remarkable coup of icon rivalry, Kingdom Tower's designers not only created a more recognizable tower (a two-second sketch?) but also delivered a building whose iconicity would be controlled from a singular GPS coordinate -- inside Foster's Al Faisaliyah Tower, now relegated to the role of a viewing tower.
Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Riyadh's Icon-Clad Perspectives 2010
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In a remarkable coup of icon rivalry, Kingdom Tower's designers not only created a more recognizable tower (a two-second sketch?) but also delivered a building whose iconicity would be controlled from a singular GPS coordinate -- inside Foster's Al Faisaliyah Tower, now relegated to the role of a viewing tower.
Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Riyadh's Icon-Clad Perspectives 2010
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Of course editing the poetry or the prose require editor brain, which has been completely taken up with discussing iconicity and metaphor in Comics as compared to language.
Different brains shweta_narayan 2009
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Of course, while Baker went on to fame and iconicity through her banana skirt over in France, Washington chose to cultivate her career as a respected artist and entertainer.
Performing with Dignity: Fredi Washington Anxious Black Woman 2008
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Of Superman's famous costume, which is really the Chanel suit of modern superherodom, the wall notes to the exhibit tell us: "Its iconicity has ensured its co-option by designers."
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ALONG WITH THE PRODUCTION boom, emerging also is a new Brooklyn-centric consciousness in film, detached from the iconicity of Manhattan.
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The persistence of Edie's iconicity can be credited, paradoxically, to Stein's attempt to make real this woman whose short life was at once a sad waste of time and culturally, ad infinitum the time of seemingly everyone's life.
The Lady Is a Tramp 2005
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