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Untitled, 2019, involved creating fifty flags from jute bags, which were displayed on Rockefeller’s famous flagpoles.
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Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Everyone rejoices as the earl raises the Stewart flag, but then whispers in superstitious fear when the finial falls off the top of the flagpole.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
The term half-staff - also known as half-mast - refers to flying a flag partway down a flagpole or ship's mast.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
The lanyard on our neighbor’s flagpole clanks in the wind, the fraying stars and stripes
fluster and droop.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Everyone rejoices as the earl raises the Stewart flag, but then whispers in superstitious fear when the finial falls off the top of the flagpole.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
The term half-staff - also known as half-mast - refers to flying a flag partway down a flagpole or ship's mast.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
The lanyard on our neighbor’s flagpole clanks in the wind, the fraying stars and stripes
fluster and droop.
—Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Flagpole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flagpole. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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flagpole
noun
flag·pole
ˈflag-ˌpōl 
: a pole from which a flag flies
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