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hallmark

[hawl-mahrk] / ˈhɔlˌmɑrk /


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Scientists have long considered declining autophagy a hallmark of aging, and problems with the process have been linked to numerous diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disorders.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Pimples and acne are an uncomfortable hallmark of teenage years, but adults can have breakouts too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Previously, one student had carelessly left in "I would be happy to help you with this research!" -- a hallmark of chatbot-generated text.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Halo has been a hallmark of the Xbox brand since Microsoft's first entry into the console market in 2001, helping establish the firm as a major player in the industry.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Archie’s voice was gentle with assurance, the old gentleness they all recognized as Archie’s hallmark when he was sailing high, wide and handsome.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Could out-of-whack cortisol levels be to blame for all the symptoms I assumed were the basic hallmarks of living as an adult in 2026?

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

In mice, researchers found that ImP reaching the brain increased the accumulation of abnormal beta amyloid and tau proteins, two major hallmarks associated with Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Although it’s still one of his most produced works, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” has the hallmarks of an early piece.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

The elongated forms, eerie moonlight, and expressive colors—all hallmarks of El Greco’s style—help to heighten our sense of identification with Christ’s suffering.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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 very instrument, it might be said, which stamped Cranley as Johnson, slew Johnson himself, and the process which hallmarked the prisoner as the heir of vast wealth stigmatized him with the brand of Cain.

From The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang

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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