insignia
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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
They found a police vehicle in his garage and a police jacket in his bedroom, as well as other clothes with law enforcement insignia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
It cited a European source as saying Palestinian representatives had also helped during the previous ceasefire but without wearing PA insignia due to "Israeli sensitivity" over their presence in Gaza.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Why the Harriers keep crashing They wear the insigne of the ace of spades, card of death, on their olive-drab flight suits, and they speak with studied confidence of their assignment.
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
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
For any serviceman, the proudest insigne is the unit crest with a red background designating a battle unit.
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
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
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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The Things They Carried
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