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a piece of cloth with a special design that is used as an emblem or for signaling
the stadium was festooned with pennants from past championships
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Or, about the following year, when the pennant came down to the Red Sox and Yankees in the final game of the season, and McCarthy pulled the nearly-untouchable Ellis Kinder for a pinch-hitter?
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Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
And he is entrusted by the Scotland National team to carry the match pennant on his back for the whole journey and deliver it in time for kick-off.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
Statement Goods, founded by Toni Point and Alysia Fields, has designs for the collection that include wooden pennants, totes, t-shirts, enamel pins and prints.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
Since its founding as a 1969 expansion franchise, San Diego has won two pennants (1984 and 1998) but never won a World Series.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
And he is entrusted by the Scotland National team to carry the match pennant on his back for the whole journey and deliver it in time for kick-off.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
Statement Goods, founded by Toni Point and Alysia Fields, has designs for the collection that include wooden pennants, totes, t-shirts, enamel pins and prints.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
Since its founding as a 1969 expansion franchise, San Diego has won two pennants (1984 and 1998) but never won a World Series.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Pennant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pennant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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