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Recent Examples of semaphore
With paint on fabric that is somewhere between a painting and semaphore, another theme is spelled out at the back of the room: tartan.
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Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
Telegraph Hill itself was named after the semaphore station built on top of it in 1850 to signal that ships had arrived.
—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
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Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
Telegraph Hill itself was named after the semaphore station built on top of it in 1850 to signal that ships had arrived.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semaphore
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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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Brind’Amour even appeared to wave the white flag by removing goalie Frederik Andersen and replacing him with Bussi.—
Mark Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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And, for the fourth time in the last 12 games, catcher Brett Sullivan — Colorado’s human white flag — was called on to pitch in relief.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
1 June 2026
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Most recently, a cousin who has the lion and sun flag prominently hanging in his home clashed with her uncle, who supports a blank tricolor flag without the emblem of the pre-revolutionary flag or the Islamic messaging of the current flag.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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When the gene is inherited from both parents, the cat's color appears more faded and soft than that of a regular calico, which is usually a rich tricolor coat of black, orange, and white.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
10 June 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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The scent of burning resin wafts through the air, and ambient music follows you around the property, matching the vibe of the day from sunrise to sunset.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 May 2026
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There was a sense of endings at St James’ Park; not definitive, not complete, but persuasive, a final home game for Kieran Trippier as a Newcastle player, and a feeble waft of farewell in the colour of claret.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Traffic cones with signs temporarily forbidding parking lined the road, and a high blue fence, its netting emblazoned with the words ALLEZ LES BLEUS and the insignia of the French national team, the Gallic rooster, alongside the school’s crest lined the edge of the campus.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
13 June 2026
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As their chants echoed through the numerous subdivisions along their path, many who walked wore monarch butterfly insignias, a symbol for migrants because of the butterflies’ cross-border migration.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
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The food is much better on papal flights with special menus printed with the pope’s coat of arms, which also adorn the head rests.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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The bird belongs to the coat of arms of Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, who was part of the first team to conquer Mount Everest.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2026
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Damiani’s artisans captured the moment when the wave, having reached its crest, begins its descent toward the shore.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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The northern bald ibis has a ruddy bill and a crest of feathers that look like an intermittent mohawk.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
11 June 2026
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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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