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buntings

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plural of bunting

as in pennants

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as in skirtings

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Sandlot Goods made pennants, t-shirts, hats and more for both the home teams and the games played at Arrowhead Stadium.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
This year, some of Miller’s favorite details are the pennants and banners hanging behind her desk.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of pennants

Noun

Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Bobby’s is a flouncy skirt and a knotted shirt straight out of the early-aughts MTV Movie & TV Awards, and Elizabeth’s is a full-length dress made out of brown faux leather with a bunch of long plaits swinging off it.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026

Definition of plaits

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Businesses here are also trying to woo the sailors, with some putting up banners to welcome them.

— Mosheh Gains, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
Trump will depart sooner or later, the banners will be torn down and much of his petty talk will be and should be forgotten.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of banners

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Every agent action, from scenario analyses to anomaly flags to board commentary, consumes tokens.

— Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
On this, the last Sunday afternoon before football returns to Oxford, the 2026 season flags stand at the ready as Elizabeth Heiskell ducks into The Library.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of flags

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Angelenos avoided the most significant impacts of Hurricane Marie over the Labor Day weekend, but the region continued to soak up the fringes of the storm Sunday, according to meteorologists.

— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The former Arsenal man had been playing for Lyon in France’s top flight for the past three years, on the fringes of most people’s footballing consciousnesses.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of fringes

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The convergence of broadcasters and streamers is also changing one of streaming’s original defining principles – exclusivity.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
That includes streamers like Fubo, Sling TV and YouTube TV, or more traditional providers like DirecTV, Dish and Xfinity.

— Takashi Williams, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of streamers

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For most of our history as a country, and certainly in the post-World War II nuclear era, our borders felt impenetrable.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Speaking at a joint news conference, Fujimori said Peru's participation in the coalition would speed intelligence-sharing and bolster joint action against criminal groups operating across borders.

— Marco Aquino, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

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