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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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But to codify the auto-bid model would be waving the white flag and accepting a lower status.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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But such findings are scant enough that a year before the conference, several high-profile academics published an article whose opening reads like a waving of the white flag for psychiatry itself.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
Noun
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There was a more playful take on loafers, with more novelty in this classic shape whether that was animal print or tricolor takes on the classic penny loafer.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
14 May 2025
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The Mexican tricolor flew again, this time joined by the flags of El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American countries.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 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 29 Jul. 2025.
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