insignia
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These officers carry assault rifles, with no visible insignia and faces covered.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The statue is heavily damaged, with its head removed and its arms and royal insignia worn away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
The brass buttons on Sergeant Maples’s coat, the insignia on his collar, and the badges on his chest all caught the meager courtroom light and held it.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Members of the team will have "but one loyalty, one purpose, one distinguishing insigne."
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
The armoured convoys are sporting white triangular insignias, seemingly to distinguish them from hardware used within Ukraine itself.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
In commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Mets wore caps with insignias representing New York first responder departments.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Players are allowed to be compensated under state rules as long as there is no recognition of the student’s school, school logos, uniforms or insignias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
She was slim, with black hair that she wore in a bun, jeans, and a denim jacket with peace insignias, “Stop the War” buttons, and red, black, and green liberation patches sewn on.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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