Thesaurus results for EMBLEM

emblem

noun

ˈem-bləm

Definition of emblem

as in symbol

a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark the oil company uses a scallop shell as its emblem

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Recent Examples of emblem Reviewers also mentioned that the embroidery can be hit and miss, especially around the emblem. — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026 The Chicago Public Schools Board of Education emblem is illuminated during a board meeting at CPS headquarters July 30, 2026. — Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 How did the zombie go from being an emblem of enslavement and loss of autonomy in Haitian Vodou to the favorite flesh-eating grotesquerie of postapocalyptic tales? — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026 Once a winter home for Prince Victor d’Essling, this Belle Époque villa is an emblem of Niçois identity. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for emblem

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Maribeth’s is on Grandma’s old table, where the same three coffee rings from the sixties still make the same old accidental partial Olympic symbol.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Allison worries everyday fans are being conditioned to see the diamond – or the court or the field – as slot machines and the human athletes as spinning symbols that sometimes align as dollar signs.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

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An advertisement couldn’t be on the screen for longer than eight seconds, and the displays would revert to a static logo after midnight each day.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
At Lacoste, the classic crocodile logo was inverted on polos, while Gucci’s Demna and Dries Van Noten’s Julian Klausner gave rugbys a bougie Euro spin.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026

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Key features include a large 19th-century draper’s table once used for measuring fabrics that is now used to showcase hundreds of pairs of Smith’s trademark socks, shoes and accessories, along with a vintage spoon chandelier.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
The family currently holds more than 50 active trademarks for skin and hair care brands.

— Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of trademark

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Inflation that hot is the hallmark of a tight labor market and strong demand, not a collapsing one.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The brand’s new collection of 925 sterling silver writing instruments, made in England and bearing the Birmingham hallmark, is also featured.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

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