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A Stormtrooper drove by on a flatbed truck, shortly before R2-D2 greeted visitors in the courtyard, wearing an official staff badge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

CNN reporter Betsy Klein said a Secret Service agent told her her badge had been deactivated.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Betsy Klein, a CNN senior White House reporter, said on CNN she attempted to enter the White House Saturday and was told her badge had been deactivated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Klein similarly reported that her credential had been deactivated, while Politico said Haslett’s badge was confiscated.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I wish it had been a boring entrance. I’d even take a different badge if I could.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

While brands that trade on comfort and aristocratic pedigree such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley have invested heavily, more performance-oriented badges such as Aston Martin, McLaren and Lamborghini have said they don’t see a market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

An MS NOW reporter and a photographer tried entering the White House grounds on Saturday morning, but their badges would not scan and an officer confiscated them, the outlet reported.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

For performances I would put little chains on my gown and wear bedazzled badges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A self-described “workaholic,” Cook famously wakes up at 4 a.m. to read customer and employee emails, then hits the gym and badges into Apple Park when he’s not traveling for diplomatic meetings or supply-chain audits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

She was cute and always looked impressive in her uniform and badges.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

"We've managed to do a negotiation with our supplier which means that there's no additional cost to parents to have a badged item," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Given the geopolitical terrain, North American buyers may see their first solid-state BEVs badged as Toyotas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

As for the "verified" dead, a few users have pointed out that some were badged anew without the consent of their estates or loved ones.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2023

Musk himself sneered at the concept in a tweet on Tuesday, describing the current division between the badged and unbadged as a “lords and peasants system.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022

And now I saw Sir John in full uniform of his rank, badged with mourning, yet all a-glitter with medals and orders, slowly dismount, while gillie Bareshanks held his stirrup.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Employees are still coffee badging, the practice of swiping into the office and sticking around long enough to have a cup of coffee before heading out to finish the workday at home or elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

PS: The Nightshade suffix refers to an exterior trim grade that bundles together the blacked-out grille, badging, 20-inch wheels, mirror caps, door handles, roof pillars and lower rear bumper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

A badging factory which was creating fake designer logos to fix on unbranded clothing has been raided by police.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

“We can watch things like badging data, and it continues to go up for us,” says Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of modern work, who advises CEO Satya Nadella on hybrid work strategy.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Indeed this flesh, O Mother, A beggar's gown, a client's badging, We find, which from thy hands we simply took, Nought dreaming of the after penury, In nescientness.

From New Poems by Francis Thompson