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as in gesture
a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling
made a sign for the audience to be quiet
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as in to employ
to provide with a paying job
the sports shoe company recently signed up the nation's top female college basketball player to plug its products
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Recent Examples of sign
Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Rudolph signed a two-year contract in the offseason to return to the Black and Gold.
—David Close, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
The Dolphins offered a sign that his rehab was progressing positively in March, restructuring his contract to convert $9.7 million of his 2024 salary into a signing bonus.
—Cameron Priester, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
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Verb
McNeil signed a four-year, $50 million deal before the 2023 season.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Rudolph signed a two-year contract in the offseason to return to the Black and Gold.
—David Close, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
Noun
Still, parents should not take the review as a sign that the US formula market is in disarray or in any way harmful to infants, Abrams said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
The Dolphins offered a sign that his rehab was progressing positively in March, restructuring his contract to convert $9.7 million of his 2024 salary into a signing bonus.
—Cameron Priester, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sign
Noun
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Social media content featuring rude hand gestures was scrubbed from the internet.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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Boxes and cylinders and prisms can no longer do that, and the lone remaining expressive gesture is to Go Weird, as architects strain for enough distinctiveness to produce a landmark.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
6 June 2025
Noun
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In one respect, at least—as a symbol for present-day America—the vehicle really could not be improved.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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John Brink, a Rand McNally cartographer, came up with a solution: Creating symbols for highways that were printed on the road maps and also put on signs attached to electrical and telephone poles along those roads.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2025
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“Sign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sign. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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