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Recent Examples of cockadeFrench revolutionaries pinned cockades to their clothes; suffragettes slung purple-and-green sashlike ribbons across their chests.—Alice Robb, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023 As a general and eventual emperor, Napoleon wore the cockade to symbolize his own revolutionary leadership.—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2023 Lafayette, on his return to France in 1779, was a hero with all the glamour of revolution clinging to his cockade, as charismatic as Che Guevara in the sixties, but with a better character.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 In revolutionary France, the Marquis de Lafayette, the same French aristocrat who fought in the American revolutionary war, is said to have designed the red, blue and white cockade.—The Economist, 17 June 2020 Nearly 500 costume makers and enthusiasts from around the world converged on the DoubleTree Hotel at Hazard Center this weekend for panels on makeup transformations, fun with fosshape, beginner embroidery and ribbon cockades.—David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2018
In response, Augusta National took away his badge for the rest of the week and determined that he was no longer allowed on the premises, per Golf Digest.
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Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
But Bianco’s badge hasn’t shielded him from Hilton’s blistering attacks about the sheriff’s past statements about immigration, COVID-19 pandemic mask mandates and Black Lives Matter protests — which is disqualifying for some GOP voters.
This is a delightful new take on yellow-gold from the watchmaking mega brand that feels more tender than its classic hue, with warm undertones of grey and soft pink.
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Charlie Boyd,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2026
Arab and Swahili traders sailed these waters on dhows, stopping along the coast to exchange goods such as ivory, gold, and spices.
Both include full integration of the climate controls into the screen, requiring more concentration to use and additional steps to make adjustments previously accomplished by pressing a simple button.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
Kiefer Lee is the owner of Long Story Books, an independent bookstore and café opening in Atlanta’s Inman Park later this summer—and the brains behind a book vending machine designed to make discovering a good read as easy and joyful as pressing a button.
Architectonics takes this murky style and plunges it to a new deep, incorporating the bronze gong and chime sounds of gamelan while burying his rhythms in dense, dubby layers of incense smoke.
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Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
Just months after its dedication, a 13-year-old was arrested and cited on suspicion of taking the bronze dove and posting it on his Instagram page.
But Cukor, who hit his thirty-year up-or-out deadline without getting a star, had long since been removed to lucrative work in the private sector.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
Sox fans are still waiting on Munetaka Murakami, the Japanese star whose slugging was going to make the fireworks budget increase exponentially, to start hitting with some regularity.
At one six-story abandoned scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, investigators found rooms kitted out to resemble the offices of police forces from Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and China, complete with fake uniforms, insignia, and identity cards.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
7 Apr. 2026
Shoes and fragments of clothing, and various small items the sailors would have carried with them—clay pipes, uniform insignia, and weapons.