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hallmark

[hawl-mahrk] / ˈhɔlˌmɑrk /


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Jacobs could recognize the architect’s hallmark design elements showcased in the home, explaining: “The house was living proof of Wright’s hallmark Usonian principle, emphasizing a close connection between a structure and its surrounding environment.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 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

The lighter touch appears, so far, to be a hallmark of the Vought-era bureau.

From Salon Sep. 1, 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

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

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

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

Wherever someone’s looking for training or certification, White said there are three hallmarks of a quality program.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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 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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