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A seal is a kind of device, an emblematic design used to identify the adopter.
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A seal is a device, or an iconographic 'graphic' meant to portray a story, god, ideology, an institution, etc. (Modern society seals-(21st century) can be generated by computers, no "seal-device", required.)

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