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Recent Examples of burgeeOne tattoo of goats with a Bayview Yacht Club flag, known as a burgee, signifies his first 25 races from Port Huron to Mackinac.—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021 The men, down to a 7-year-old sailor named Hank, had gold buttons on their blue blazers and red neckties bearing the club burgee.—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2021 Outside was given a nautical motif with burgees placed in flowering pots, flags hanging from railings highlighting blue-and-white life preservers personalized with the debs' names.—Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017 The county seal appears on a light blue burgee, which is considered to be the first Ohio county flag that is the same shape as the Ohio flag.—cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
In the streets of Los Angeles, in June, as the city clashed with ICE, the most visible symbol of the protest was the Mexican flag, the tricolor raised over the haze of tear gas and black smoke.
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Jack Herrera,
New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2025
The most visible of the recent bunch is rapper Lil Yachty’s Concrete Boys collaboration from May, a tricolor look which combined Lucky Green, Mystic Red and University Gold.
The agents had a Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms, the outlet reported.
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Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
Instead, a black van carrying the insignia of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, which is responsible for stopping espionage and intelligence threats, was parked behind the men.
Paintings incorporating subtle nods to their family’s history (a motif of their family crest, a windsurfer, and a Pernod-Ricard bottle, due to their family’s hand in inventing the famous French spirit) are hung throughout the hotel.
But with the team not having its first-round picks in 2026 or 2027, and the standings still very tight, general manager Brad Treliving isn’t ready to wave the white flag just yet.
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Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
By then, the Hornets were down 17 to the Pistons (22-6) and already preparing to wave the white flag leading into Monday night’s matchup in Cleveland.
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Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Dec. 2025
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