insignia
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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
It cited a European source as saying Palestinian representatives had also helped during the previous ceasefire but without wearing PA insignia due to "Israeli sensitivity" over their presence in Gaza.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
He found the man’s lack of insignia disconcerting and was not even sure he had to say ‘sir.’
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
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
He kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne.
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
“These are our favorite things on the planet,” said Stewart, who was heavily involved in developing “Honor Among Thieves,” down to the spells and insignias seen on screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
The Mets wore caps with insignias representing New York first responder departments.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
She was slim, with black hair that she wore in a bun, jeans, and a denim jacket with peace insignias, “Stop the War” buttons, and red, black, and green liberation patches sewn on.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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