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Recent Examples of burgee
One tattoo of goats with a Bayview Yacht Club flag, known as a burgee, signifies his first 25 races from Port Huron to Mackinac.
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Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021
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
Outside was given a nautical motif with burgees placed in flowering pots, flags hanging from railings highlighting blue-and-white life preservers personalized with the debs' names.
—Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
The county seal appears on a light blue burgee, which is considered to be the first Ohio county flag that is the same shape as the Ohio flag.
—cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021
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
Outside was given a nautical motif with burgees placed in flowering pots, flags hanging from railings highlighting blue-and-white life preservers personalized with the debs' names.
—Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
The county seal appears on a light blue burgee, which is considered to be the first Ohio county flag that is the same shape as the Ohio flag.
—cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burgee
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With paint on fabric that is somewhere between a painting and semaphore, another theme is spelled out at the back of the room: tartan.Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
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Telegraph Hill itself was named after the semaphore station built on top of it in 1850 to signal that ships had arrived.Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
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Visitors to her fashion exhibit in Houston will also see the tricolor dress, in honor of the Mexican flag, included on her family’s Jaripeo Sin Fronteras Tour, as well as the princess cut dress that the singer wore in front of Queen Sofia of Spain, which also showcased her Mexican roots.Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2024
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Next up is performing live at a pub full of old sods and one barmaid with an Instagram account; terrified of jeopardizing his day job, JJ hits the turntables with a tricolor balaclava hiding his face and finds his inner Beastie Boy/Borstal Boy unleashed.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
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The same insignia the girl who told Suzie about the Dark Manual had tattooed on her stomach.Chris Klimek, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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ProPublica reported that some members went anyway but were under strict instruction to forgo any AP3 insignia.Tess Owen, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024
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On Saturday at the festival’s Olympia Theatre, however, a distinct waft of emotion was in the air when Athina Rachel Tsangari arrived to present her latest feature Harvest.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Enter any home in Oman, however small, and you will be welcomed with wafts of frankincense scenting the air, followed by a cup of sweet Arabic coffee and an offering of succulent dates.Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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This detail and the prestige needed for such a prominent grave location within the church led archaeologists to believe the tombstone is Yeardley’s, as did a reference to a broken tomb with a crest made by his step-grandson in the 1680s.Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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In places, the original owners’ family crest is on display.Ann Abel, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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With the wave of a figurative white flag, could gentle parenting be moving to the fringes of the parenting zeitgeist alongside helicopter and snowplow parenting — philosophies that encouraged parents to hover over their child and remove all obstacles from their path?Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
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According to one account, Little Thunder approached Harney holding an umbrella as a makeshift white flag.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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The Air Thickening Spray made our locks look significantly fuller while still feeling soft and touchable, earning itself a badge of approval in our 2024 PEOPLE Beauty Awards.Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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The Cost Of Ignoring Empathy Leaders often speak of resilience as a badge of honor, but resilience should not be synonymous with survival in hostile conditions.Vivek Rana, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Burgee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgee. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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