Spiritual symbol I see in American city (5)

I believe the answer is:

omaha

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'city' is the definition.
(Omaha is an example)

'spiritual symbol i see in american' is the wordplay.
'spiritual symbol' becomes 'ma' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'i see' becomes 'oh' (both can mean 'I understand').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'ma' going into 'oh' is 'omah'.
'omah'+'a'='OMAHA'

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(Other definitions for omaha that I've seen before include "place in Nebraska" , "US 1944 D-Day landing beach" , "- - Beach (WWII)" , "Nebraska city and code-named beach of D-Day landings" , "US city; D-Day 16" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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