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insignia

[in-sig-nee-uh] / ɪnˈsɪg ni ə /


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The statue is heavily damaged, with its head removed and its arms and royal insignia worn away.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even the stage curtain, graced with Brigadoon’s floral insignia, is a work of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

In the virtual hearing, which lasted five minutes, she said she spoke to a man dressed in a green uniform, stitched with what looked like government insignia, seated in front of an American flag.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

Platner pleaded ignorance—claiming that he had gotten inked with insignia while drunk and off duty in Croatia, and didn’t understand the horrific context until much later.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

It was the same insignia that Riker had on the medallion he wore!

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Reportedly Ernie King is already designing a new sleeve insigne and pondering a way to avoid the Milky Way effect on his starstudded shoulder boards by substituting a wreath, or something.

From Time Magazine Archive

And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman's ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed, missile-toting creature, the insigne of Army missilemen at Fort Bliss, Texas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Navy captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes on his shoulder boards.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

With the SR-71, the Air Force, taking over high-altitude reconnaissance from the CIA, insisted that markings and insignias be painted on the all-black plane—a ridiculous request.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

“These are our favorite things on the planet,” said Stewart, who was heavily involved in developing “Honor Among Thieves,” down to the spells and insignias seen on screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

The male dancers are clearly wearing uniforms, but Demuth chooses not to include insignias, medals, or other identifying marks.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Among more than 1,000 items were Nazi insignias, uniforms, flags and images of Adolf Hitler.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2021

He usually wore a baggy Army uniform with no insignias.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe


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