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It’s not a sentimental picture, but the gestures are intuitive, eloquent, easily read—an elemental semaphore of the human capacity to comfort.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semaphore
Noun
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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
Noun
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Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault waved the white flag and removed the majority of his key players with minutes remaining in the third quarter.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2025
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Detroit kept pouring it on from there, and by the fifth inning Alex Cora had waved the white flag and emptied the Red Sox bench.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
13 May 2025
Noun
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The tricolor pop has three levels of sourness, starting with a sharp red layer and ending with sweet cherry-lime. Buy it!—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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The nation’s new flag, the Irish tricolor, included green for Catholics, orange for Protestants and white to represent peace between them.—
Joseph Patrick Kelly,
The Conversation,
20 May 2025
Noun
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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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One dessert that stands out from all the cupcakes, cookies and biscuits decorated with crowns and union jacks is the Jack Russel cake, which brings to mind the king and queen consort's two Jack Russell terriers.—
Karina Zaiets,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2023
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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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