marker

Example Sentences

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The adoptee said she would also like people like her to have a marker on their medical records because having to repeat her background to medical professionals "is very, very triggering".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

As a result, neither marker alone is reliable enough for screening.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

Lobbing a few commands at the computer, Grace finds Mary to be no more useful than Siri and soon resorts to doing his own math with a dry-erase marker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

After the father’s guilty plea, the prosecutor said that he hoped it “laid down a marker to other prosecutors, to other police in this country, to other parents, that they must be held accountable.”

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026

It is now generally regarded as a much more important marker of the beginning of modern astronomy than the publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton