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hallmark

[hawl-mahrk] / ˈhɔlˌmɑrk /


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Efficiency is a hallmark of Mr. Amos’s songwriting.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Brown didn’t bite: It was the hallmark of a “fake check” scam.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

These micro-adjustments are a hallmark of his game and through them he is able to shift an entire team's momentum.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel investigates why lamination—a hallmark of an organized classroom—has such a hold on both kids and grown-ups.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

“You have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s an amazing play. A hallmark of American playwriting. You just don’t have any flair for drama.”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

The current conflict has the hallmarks of a long-term conflict as well, he added.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

Nonetheless, "the crop already has all the hallmarks of producing great, perhaps even exceptional, wines", the group said in a statement.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

MORRISON, Colo.—The scene at Red Rocks Amphitheatre had all the hallmarks of an electronic dance music festival.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Maresca will have wanted the win, no matter how it came, and City achieved it, even though it did carry a lot of the hallmarks of a work in progress.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Similar tribal organization in the past is inferred from archaeological evidence of settlements that were substantial but lacked the archaeological hallmarks of chiefdoms that I shall explain below.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Her technique stems from the art of Mexican son jarocho, a folkloric style of music native to Veracruz, hallmarked by the concurrent strumming of such string instruments as harps and guitars.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2022

Opening on Wednesday and set to continue until next May is a trial hallmarked to go down in history.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2021

Durable, warm, and waterproof, the thick woolen material became a farmer favorite, hallmarked by small, often-subtle crisscross patterns known as “shepherd’s check” or “houndstooth,” the latter named for its jagged, incisor-like appearance.

From National Geographic Jan. 14, 2021

The case is engraved with a verse from John Donne’s poem “The Canonization” and signed "Bosie," hallmarked Birmingham 1897.

From Fox News Nov. 9, 2018

The oldest hallmarked Apostle spoon is dated 1493, while the most modern of which we have any record bears the date of 1665.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend

Now, using a 3D-printed mould based on an AI blueprint, and streamlining the process in other ways, "I can make this piece in one week" with a few more needed for hallmarking, he said.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

According to Alastair Dickenson, a British silver dealer who has appeared as an expert on the BBC program “Antiques Roadshow” for more than 30 years, English hallmarking has been around for almost 700 years.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2023

It received a royal charter in 1327 to control the standard of silver and precious metals being sold through the hallmarking system.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2014

Dr. Lucie has defaced Scagel’s hallmarking dies with deep scrapes, so they cannot be used to create fakes.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2012

He used Fabergé hallmarking tools to reattribute early 1900s pieces made by other Russian goldsmiths or their French archrival Cartier.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2011




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