hallmark
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Spiro claimed he contacted the production “multiple times” and “requested an opportunity to present the facts in the normal fact-checking process that is the hallmark of ethical journalism. You have refused to engage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The current conflict has the hallmarks of a long-term conflict as well, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
These concerns are crystallized in his 1956 play “The Visit,” a work that has some of the hallmarks of the absurdist comedies of the period but just as many differences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Charlotte Charles, whose son was killed by US citizen Anne Sacoolas in a road crash outside a Northamptonshire airbase, said the situation had "all the hallmarks" of Harry's case.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
There were tears and snits and several small bruises and scrapes, all the hallmarks of a grand party.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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NSW Police said their thoughts and condolences "remain with those who were lucky enough to know, love, and be loved by Mrs Nowland during a life she led hallmarked by family, kindness and community."
From BBC ● May 24, 2023
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
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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