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Recent Examples of badgesIf employees have company ID badges, the information should be on a card that can be kept with their badge.—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
Not only in the stands that hold 80,000 people, but also on the grounds and walkways, too—every tunnel, ingress point, and food stand had a line, with mostly Italian insignia on view, though there was tons of American regalia too.
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Nick Remsen,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2026
Of all the hats Herschel Bloom wore during his life, his favorite was a baseball cap with the Yankees insignia on it, his friends said.
Norway, which boasts the most medals in Winter Games history, does not award cash bonuses for podium finishes.
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Lee Ying Shan,Sydney Goh,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
Those three pilots teamed up to win nine medals in this World Cup season, more than any other nation — other than juggernaut Germany, which won 60 — in both men’s and women’s bobsledding combined.
There are so many better emblems out there, anyhow — look at any Netflix series that needs to state what’s happened in very explicit dialogue at least three times every episode!
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
For the past decade, the months of January in this town have been littered with Chiefs signs, emblems, banners and packed storefronts, from downtown to the Plaza, and from one side of State Line Road to the other.
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Sam McDowell
February 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 Feb. 2026
In addition to the Skagit River at Mount Vernon, several other rivers saw record crests, according to an NBC News analysis, including at the Snohomish River in Snohomish, the Cedar River in Renton, the Nooksack River in North Cedarville and the Grays River in Rosburg.
In her hair, red and white lacy ribbons threaded through two braids in an Indigenous Mexican hairstyle.
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Jessica Ma,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
During the show’s broadcast Wednesday morning, hosts Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin and Carson Daly, as well as Jenna Bush Hager, Sheinelle Jones and Al Roker all sported small yellow ribbons, similar to the ones that have begun cropping up in Nancy’s Arizona neighborhood.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
The bold colors and the imagery − from indigenous symbols such as the Aztec calendar, pyramids, deity Quetzalcoatl and Olmec colossal heads to depictions of the Virgin Mary, Emiliano Zapata, Cesar Chavez and migrant fieldworkers − captivated him.
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Andrés Soto,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
Voluminous dresses decorated with heraldic symbols and folk scenes overflow their couches.