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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 pennants
Bochy made his greatest contributions to the game in October while leading his teams to five pennants and four World Series titles — three in San Francisco from 2010-14 and then leading the Rangers to the franchise’s first championship in 2023.
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Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2025
With the biggest payroll in baseball, the Dodgers are baseball's most successful franchise in recent years, with two World Series titles and five National League pennants over the past nine seasons.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
Ohtani's Dodgers are the first NL team to win back-to-back pennants since Philadelphia in 2009.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Fans in brown, gold and white waved white World Series pennants, peered through binoculars or just yelled and clapped.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Washington won back-to-back American League pennants for the Rangers in 2010 and 2011.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet there is still a whiff of old-fashioned British grandeur about the production, with its fluttering pennants, Norman kite shields, and mounted knights.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The tradition muted palette gets a graphic update courtesy of pops of color informed by school pennants, an LV monogram tartan, as well as on theme embroideries and crests that extend to small accessories in the form of what are sure to be covetable caps, scarves, and ties.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
Other editorial pieces will include boatneck knits and an assortment of accessories handcrafted in New York from vintage felt college pennants, some nearly a century old.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2025
With the biggest payroll in baseball, the Dodgers are baseball's most successful franchise in recent years, with two World Series titles and five National League pennants over the past nine seasons.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
Ohtani's Dodgers are the first NL team to win back-to-back pennants since Philadelphia in 2009.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Fans in brown, gold and white waved white World Series pennants, peered through binoculars or just yelled and clapped.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Washington won back-to-back American League pennants for the Rangers in 2010 and 2011.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet there is still a whiff of old-fashioned British grandeur about the production, with its fluttering pennants, Norman kite shields, and mounted knights.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The tradition muted palette gets a graphic update courtesy of pops of color informed by school pennants, an LV monogram tartan, as well as on theme embroideries and crests that extend to small accessories in the form of what are sure to be covetable caps, scarves, and ties.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
Other editorial pieces will include boatneck knits and an assortment of accessories handcrafted in New York from vintage felt college pennants, some nearly a century old.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pennants
Noun
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There is loud chanting, flags and people banging on cans.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Just that morning, a colleague had hung Pride and Black Lives Matter flags outside our office.—
Zach Fisch,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Mere weeks after the empire had collapsed, that word appeared on posters glued to the walls of public buildings and on banners strung from lampposts along the central avenues.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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That kind of proof may matter long after the banners come down.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Pennants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pennants. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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