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Recent Examples of semaphore
Telegraph Hill itself was named after the semaphore station built on top of it in 1850 to signal that ships had arrived.
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Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
Her eyes blaze, her dancing reads as semaphore; a feeling of overkill, unsettling but necessary, pervades her every move.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
It’s not a sentimental picture, but the gestures are intuitive, eloquent, easily read—an elemental semaphore of the human capacity to comfort.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
The main difference with this method is how the semaphore is initialized.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
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Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
Her eyes blaze, her dancing reads as semaphore; a feeling of overkill, unsettling but necessary, pervades her every move.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
It’s not a sentimental picture, but the gestures are intuitive, eloquent, easily read—an elemental semaphore of the human capacity to comfort.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
The main difference with this method is how the semaphore is initialized.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semaphore
Noun
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Instead, the swift decisions by Johnson and the signaler enabled the train to be stopped at Huntingdon; the next opportunity would have been a station seven minutes further down the line.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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But with the team not having its first-round picks in 2026 or 2027, and the standings still very tight, general manager Brad Treliving isn’t ready to wave the white flag just yet.—
Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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By then, the Hornets were down 17 to the Pistons (22-6) and already preparing to wave the white flag leading into Monday night’s matchup in Cleveland.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Dec. 2025
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In the streets of Los Angeles, in June, as the city clashed with ICE, the most visible symbol of the protest was the Mexican flag, the tricolor raised over the haze of tear gas and black smoke.—
Jack Herrera,
New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2025
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The most visible of the recent bunch is rapper Lil Yachty’s Concrete Boys collaboration from May, a tricolor look which combined Lucky Green, Mystic Red and University Gold.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
22 Nov. 2025
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One tattoo of goats with a Bayview Yacht Club flag, known as a burgee, signifies his first 25 races from Port Huron to Mackinac.—
Phoebe Wall Howard,
Detroit Free Press,
24 July 2021
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The men, down to a 7-year-old sailor named Hank, had gold buttons on their blue blazers and red neckties bearing the club burgee.—
Sam Whiting,
San Francisco Chronicle,
25 Apr. 2021
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Artisanal, electric energy has occupied the grand bones of this intoxicating city, with young creatives animating the unbuttoned cafés and bars filling its old town’s squares—the air always hot and heavy with wafts of arancini and zucchini fritti.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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The days get shorter, a cold chill moves through the air, string lights sparkle in your neighborhood, a faint waft of pine floats your way, and inexplicably Kevin Spacey appears to do an odd bit of press.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2025
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The agents had a Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms, the outlet reported.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead, a black van carrying the insignia of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, which is responsible for stopping espionage and intelligence threats, was parked behind the men.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
6 Jan. 2026
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Then the brand’s logo was criticized for resembling the coat of arms of a small Spanish town.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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That coat of arms, designed by the College of Arms in London and approved by the Queen, united William and Kate's separate shields in one design as husband and wife.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
20 Nov. 2025
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The crest is the true home run.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2026
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Paintings incorporating subtle nods to their family’s history (a motif of their family crest, a windsurfer, and a Pernod-Ricard bottle, due to their family’s hand in inventing the famous French spirit) are hung throughout the hotel.—
Zoe Dubno,
Vogue,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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