Thesaurus results for PENNANT

pennant

noun

ˈpe-nənt

as in flag

a piece of cloth with a special design that is used as an emblem or for signaling the stadium was festooned with pennants from past championships

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Recent Examples of pennant Whereas the 1984 Padres team built by general manager Jack McKeon (and others) and the 1998 Padres club built by Kevin Towers (and others) reached the World Series, none of Preller’s 11 Padres teams has won a pennant. —

Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026 Last year marked 10 years since the Mets had last won a National League pennant, and this year the team will commemorate the 40-year anniversary of their last World Series championship, one of only two in the franchise’s less-than-illustrious history. —

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026 The Toronto Blue Jays, for example, went from 74 victories in 2024 to 94 victories and an American League pennant in 2025. —

Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026 The Robinson Dodgers had won the National League pennant twice in his first three years. —

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Russian athletes will compete under their own flag at the Paralympics for the first time in more than a decade, and the country’s national anthem could be played for gold medalists for the first time on the stage of a major global sporting event since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

— Tales Azzoni, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Iran’s armed forces denied launching drones at Azerbaijan and suggested the incident may have been a false-flag operation by Israel.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026