as in insignia
a sign of identity that has the first letters of a person's first, middle, and last names and that is put on towels, blankets, clothes, etc., as a decoration or to show ownership
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Recent Examples of monograms
Perhaps that’s why so many luxury fashion houses have employed monograms to build their aesthetic identity.
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Brandon Kaipo Moningka, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
This brand also offers a variety of contrasting shams, extra monograms, and even matching duvet covers.
—Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 29 Dec. 2025
The gift should not be anything unique, handmade, or personalized with monograms, names or dates.
—Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Dec. 2025
These ranged from flowers and leaves to monograms and stars.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
Available in more than 15 colors and customizable with monograms, logos, and phrases, the chiller fits most red, white, and even sparkling wine bottles.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
Personalize It For a personalized touch, consider investing in a custom shower curtain featuring bespoke fabrics, designs, or monograms.
—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
And their interlocking nature is a standard form of creating monograms.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Best of all, they can be customized with a generous variety of monograms.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Brandon Kaipo Moningka, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
This brand also offers a variety of contrasting shams, extra monograms, and even matching duvet covers.
—Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 29 Dec. 2025
The gift should not be anything unique, handmade, or personalized with monograms, names or dates.
—Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Dec. 2025
These ranged from flowers and leaves to monograms and stars.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
Available in more than 15 colors and customizable with monograms, logos, and phrases, the chiller fits most red, white, and even sparkling wine bottles.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
Personalize It For a personalized touch, consider investing in a custom shower curtain featuring bespoke fabrics, designs, or monograms.
—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
And their interlocking nature is a standard form of creating monograms.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Best of all, they can be customized with a generous variety of monograms.
—Amanda Lauren, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monograms
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The excavation has yielded shoes, clothing fragments, clay pipes, uniform insignia, weapons, two cannons and bottles — along with what may be the remains of one of 19 crew members listed as missing after the battle.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Apr. 2026
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Shoes and fragments of clothing, and various small items the sailors would have carried with them—clay pipes, uniform insignia, and weapons.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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These licenses give Fanatics/Topps the rights to use the intellectual property of the respective soccer federations — their names, logos, crests that appear on uniforms and uniform designs — on trading cards and stickers.—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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The logo was created in the style of Japanese family crests, with quatrefoils embellishments and stylized flowers.—
Brandon Kaipo Moningka,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Chaiwalas, or street tea venders, have long been taken as emblems of the small-scale entrepreneurialism by which uneducated Indians can gain subsistence, and, in theory, something more.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The two became emblems of a schism.—
Gaby Del Valle,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Voters will face a jumbo-sized ballot featuring candidates' photos and party symbols, a longstanding practice in a society historically marked by low literacy levels.—
Simeon Tegel,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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It is made entirely from gold sheets and ornately decorated with protective symbols.—
Ryan Brennan
April 10,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Apr. 2026
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If 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
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One of the trademarks of Suter’s career has been his durability and ability to get through multiple innings with minimal pitches.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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Ripps and Cahen successfully appealed, with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the decision last July and determining that a trial was necessary to determine if Ripps’s NFTs actually infringed Yuga’s trademarks.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The vishaps’ consistent ties to water sources, their polished surfaces and their precise placement in harsh alpine zones point to a widespread belief system in which water itself was sacred and required such totems of appreciation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Monograms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monograms. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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