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insignia

[in-sig-nee-uh] / ɪnˈsɪg ni ə /


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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

The holder of the honour is then asked to return their insignia to Buckingham Palace and cannot use the title or post-nominal letters any more.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Already, German tanks and armored personnel carriers, emblazoned with the military’s black Iron Cross insignia, are training in Lithuania’s Rudninkai forest close to the border with Belarus, Russia’s closest ally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The name, Cartel of the Suns, derives from the sun insignia found on the uniforms of Venezuelan soldiers, much like stars on U.S. military uniforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

After dinner, Cleopatra fixed her royal insignia on a letter to Octavian and summoned a messenger to deliver it.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

He kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Members of the team will have "but one loyalty, one purpose, one distinguishing insigne."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Navy captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes on his shoulder boards.

From Time Magazine Archive

And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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

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

Children, parents and medical staff assembled in the courtyard before Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in central Gaza, with many of them unfurling banners carrying university insignias with “Thank you for supporting our cause.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

In commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Mets wore caps with insignias representing New York first responder departments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 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

There I gave up my street clothes and was given a set of old army fatigues with the insignias ripped off.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos


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