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Recent Examples of semaphore
Telegraph Hill itself was named after the semaphore station built on top of it in 1850 to signal that ships had arrived.
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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
The main difference with this method is how the semaphore is initialized.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
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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
The main difference with this method is how the semaphore is initialized.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semaphore
Noun
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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
Noun
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The Heat waved the white flag midway through the fourth quarter, emptying its bench.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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With 56 seconds left and Dan Hurley waving the white flag after subbing in a wholesale five-for-five change, Ejiofor missed a block-out and Pitino charged on the floor to point at him.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One Venezuelan attendee, Víctor Jiménez, 58, who described himself as a businessman, was the only person visibly displaying Venezuelan symbols, wearing a tricolor hat and carrying a Venezuelan flag.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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Flowing from the roof to the street was the massive tricolor flag that revolutionaries had hung on liberation day.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 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
Noun
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The scents of honey, lavender, patchouli and cedarwood waft through The Hive by Upcycled Candles, as soft alternative rock fills the air.—
Sarah Kyrcz,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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Banana pudding wafts with the green vanilla notes of pandan.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said military chaplains would no longer display their rank insignia.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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That man did not have any insignia identifying him as an ICE agent.—
Lauren Victory,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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The jewelry was shaped like oak leaves and featured a pavé diamond acorn in the center, inspired by the Middleton family coat of arms.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
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The coat of arms and other decorations are the focus of the restoration.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Winds gusting as high as 100 mph at the crest.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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The ‘purple sky’ era Team above all, individuality yielding to the crest.—
Dan Robson,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Semaphore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semaphore. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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