semaphore

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Recent Examples of semaphore 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 Predictably, this area was a resource locked with a mutex semaphore. Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020 The dollar, which has fallen by 6% against a basket of currencies since March, is usually part of the semaphore. The Economist, 11 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for semaphore
Recent Examples of Synonyms for semaphore
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Plough isn’t waving a white flag here.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • After Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal on Friday denied the city’s request for a rehearing in an election lawsuit brought by mayoral candidate Emilio González, the city officials who pushed for the change are waving the white flag.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its wings may be missing, but with its body decked out in period Air France livery, with a chrome-effect undercarriage, gleaming white roof, winged seahorse logo and French tricolor flag, the Comet is an eye-catching sight.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Mexican tricolor flew again, this time joined by the flags of El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American countries.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Shoppers spend on Oxford Street beneath union jack flags in London’s West End, on April 3.
    Ian King, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In line with the Princess of Wales' attire, the Duchess of Edinburgh also donned a blue and red cape over her gown, a nod to the colors of the union jack.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 7 May 2023

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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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