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insignia

[in-sig-nee-uh] / ɪnˈsɪg ni ə /


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“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 lions standing back-to-back are part of the agency's official insignia and are the national emblem of India.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Red-faced, like all the Lees, white-bearded, dressed in an old gray coat and a gray felt hat, without insignia, so that he is mistaken sometimes for an elderly major of dignity.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Reportedly Ernie King is already designing a new sleeve insigne and pondering a way to avoid the Milky Way effect on his starstudded shoulder boards by substituting a wreath, or something.

From Time Magazine Archive

For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the insigne of a Distinguished Worker of Sanitary Defense of the U.S.S.R.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why the Harriers keep crashing They wear the insigne of the ace of spades, card of death, on their olive-drab flight suits, and they speak with studied confidence of their assignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

A four-engine jetliner, which looks very much like a Pan Am 707 and has an insigne on the box similar to the Pan Am seal, costs $4.70.

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

The armoured convoys are sporting white triangular insignias, seemingly to distinguish them from hardware used within Ukraine itself.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2024

The Mets wore caps with insignias representing New York first responder departments.

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2022

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

He usually wore a baggy Army uniform with no insignias.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe




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