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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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The two colors in her eternity band served as a sweet homage to Monaco’s red-and-white flag.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
7 Mar. 2026
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Mazzulla waved the white flag just past the midway point of the fourth quarter, sending in deep reserves Luka Garza and Dalano Banton to close out the game.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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One Venezuelan attendee, Víctor Jiménez, 58, who described himself as a businessman, was the only person visibly displaying Venezuelan symbols, wearing a tricolor hat and carrying a Venezuelan flag.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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Flowing from the roof to the street was the massive tricolor flag that revolutionaries had hung on liberation day.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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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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Losing the Great Salt Lake would therefore have dire economic consequences for the region, in addition to health threats as dust laden with heavy metals wafts off the lake bed and into neighborhoods.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
7 Mar. 2026
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The Source also obtained a copy of a snarky complaint one of its guests lodged with state investigators after watching dust plumes waft from Mountain Cement to his room.—
Justin Wingerter,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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According to a press release, the Cincinnati Reds' team cans feature Budweiser's anniversary insignia, the team's wordmark on the front and a unique, vintage illustration that includes the Reds' classic logo, colors and uniforms.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Mar. 2026
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The drivers will also display their commands’ insignias on their cars.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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The jewelry was shaped like oak leaves and featured a pavé diamond acorn in the center, inspired by the Middleton family coat of arms.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
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The coat of arms and other decorations are the focus of the restoration.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Mar. 2026
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The more subtle navy blue jersey has a repeating star pattern with red piping that wraps from the shoulders to the side, a metallic silver USA crest and a matching Nike swoosh.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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All due respect to the 1930 semifinalists and 1934/1950 participants, but kit culture truly didn’t take off until more recent times, and the earliest jerseys were nothing more than a plain shirt with a crest in the center, anyway.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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