insignia
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The statue is heavily damaged, with its head removed and its arms and royal insignia worn away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
“We got turtlenecks with the Chargers insignia on them,” Rogan recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the virtual hearing, which lasted five minutes, she said she spoke to a man dressed in a green uniform, stitched with what looked like government insignia, seated in front of an American flag.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
Platner pleaded ignorance—claiming that he had gotten inked with insignia while drunk and off duty in Croatia, and didn’t understand the horrific context until much later.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
The lieutenant was sharp, his brass belt buckle and insignia were shined, and his uniform was creased in all the right places.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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The chain editorials that went out from New York to all Scripps-Howard papers were not even sent to the Enquirer; the chain insigne, a lighthouse, did not shine from its pages.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman's ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed, missile-toting creature, the insigne of Army missilemen at Fort Bliss, Texas.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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With the SR-71, the Air Force, taking over high-altitude reconnaissance from the CIA, insisted that markings and insignias be painted on the all-black plane—a ridiculous request.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Players are allowed to be compensated under state rules as long as there is no recognition of the student’s school, school logos, uniforms or insignias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
The male dancers are clearly wearing uniforms, but Demuth chooses not to include insignias, medals, or other identifying marks.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Among more than 1,000 items were Nazi insignias, uniforms, flags and images of Adolf Hitler.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2021
A young boy, perhaps ten, wanders over to ask questions about the meaning of the insignias on his uniform.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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The Things They Carried
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