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hallmark

[hawl-mahrk] / ˈhɔlˌmɑrk /


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Rather than concentrating on one hallmark of the disease, scientists are exploring treatments that address several interconnected causes of brain damage.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

And it seems that these undetected flares may contribute to several of the hallmark diseases of old age.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

The hallmark of Dart's success this week has been her resilience and ability to recover from losing positions.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Bukele accompanied his social media post with a video of soldiers filing into planes and cargo being loaded, a stylized compilation that is a hallmark of his tireless social media presence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 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

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

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

The fake review left by Which? also seemingly passed the site's checks, despite bearing all the hallmarks of a joke.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Vanished states tended to leave visible archaeological hallmarks, such as ruins of temples with standardized designs, at least four levels of settlement sizes, and pottery styles covering tens of thousands of square miles.

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

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 proceedings have offered extraordinary detail of the workings of a Mexican cartel, but have been hallmarked by what is unseen – and kept that way by Judge Brian Cogan.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2019

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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