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The phrase "a gesture to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate an action or sign intended to express a feeling or intention towards someone or something.
Example: "The donation was a gesture to support the local community during difficult times."
Alternatives: "a sign of" or "an indication of".
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It is a gesture to honor Antwan.
She made a gesture to ask me to stop".
Lincoln delayed issuing the final Emancipation Proclamation not as a gesture to the South but as a gesture to conservatives in the North, who might have feared Emancipation.
"I had returned and rescued a home, in a gesture to history and memory," he writes.
So he made a gesture to Microsoft this week to avert hostility.
Then he made a gesture to slice his throat with his right hand.
The line might have been a gesture to divides in this country as well.
As Bernice began to play, my uncle moved forward and made a gesture to the congregation.
(It was also, of course, a gesture to the state's large Hispanic electorate).
"They can't change it," he added, with a gesture to Mr. Picard's table.
There will be a gesture to the American composer John Cage at both Japan Society concerts.
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