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a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark
the oil company uses a scallop shell as its emblem
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Recent Examples of emblems
Organized in drops, the collection celebrates the carefree spirit associated with the Vespa scooter and is rich in pieces intended to be layered and the brand’s signature emblems and graphics.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 27 Sep. 2025
On this rainy August night, there were plenty of American accents to be heard in the arena; concertgoers were given lanyards with light-up emblems in the shape of cameras, which evoked the album title while also making everyone look like a tourist.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In later centuries, Barbary lions were gifted between royal courts, kept in menageries, and even depicted on national emblems — as in the coat of arms of Morocco and the United Kingdom.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
For millennia, trees have stood as emblems of the profound interconnectedness of all living things, central to the universe’s structural integrity and humanity’s moral compass.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Since his rise to power, supporters have widely adopted the green-and-yellow national flag and soccer jersey into pro-Bolsonaro emblems.
—Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Swastikas were dropped from Finnish aircraft in the wake of World War II, but did still appear on some unit flags, other emblems and uniforms, a Finnish air force spokesperson told the BBC in 2020.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
The country still uses a lot of Soviet emblems and iconography.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 27 Sep. 2025
On this rainy August night, there were plenty of American accents to be heard in the arena; concertgoers were given lanyards with light-up emblems in the shape of cameras, which evoked the album title while also making everyone look like a tourist.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In later centuries, Barbary lions were gifted between royal courts, kept in menageries, and even depicted on national emblems — as in the coat of arms of Morocco and the United Kingdom.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
For millennia, trees have stood as emblems of the profound interconnectedness of all living things, central to the universe’s structural integrity and humanity’s moral compass.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Since his rise to power, supporters have widely adopted the green-and-yellow national flag and soccer jersey into pro-Bolsonaro emblems.
—Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Swastikas were dropped from Finnish aircraft in the wake of World War II, but did still appear on some unit flags, other emblems and uniforms, a Finnish air force spokesperson told the BBC in 2020.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
The country still uses a lot of Soviet emblems and iconography.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emblems
Noun
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The image contains a private universe of symbols, our own mythology of characters.—
Lana Lin
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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Beckett’s symbols of master and slave — the whip, the rope, the servant weighed down with baggage — are either mimed or cut and in doing so lose its real horror.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But worst of all is the knowledge that all of these terrors were trademarks of the asylums that stowed away those with mental health conditions well into the 20th century.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Disney still retains copyrights for later iterations of the characters, as well as trademarks, which vastly limit exploitation from competitors.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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Afro-Atlantic inspirations get a Gallic accent, with a menu retaining the tenets of Paris bistro and café fare, revisited with touches of the American South’s culinary hallmarks such as okra, pecans and corn.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those infamous words are the hallmarks of a corrupt state.—
David French,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Emblems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emblems. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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