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Recent Examples of burgeeOne 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 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
Its wings may be missing, but with its body decked out in period Air France livery, with a chrome-effect undercarriage, gleaming white roof, winged seahorse logo and French tricolor flag, the Comet is an eye-catching sight.
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CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
The Mexican tricolor flew again, this time joined by the flags of El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American countries.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2025
Under the Hatch Act, federal personnel, including members of Congress, are prohibited from wearing partisan or political apparel such as T-shirts, buttons or other political groups’ paraphernalia while carrying out official duties or wearing official insignia.
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Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Sep. 2025
In Caracas today, military police in balaclavas and without insignia regularly patrol the streets.
Certainly, there is not the faintest whiff of a waft of a suggestion that Novak was anything other than delightful to work with, the very incarnation of sweetness and light herself.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Sep. 2025
The essence of French cooking wafts through the air as one passes the doors of other iconic eateries like Le Bilboquet, La Goulue, Le Veau d’Or, and Match 65 Brasserie, all located in the East 60s.
But on Friday, after losing in straight sets to Alcaraz, having done so to Sinner at the French Open and Wimbledon, Djokovic, the archest of arch-competitors, effectively hoisted the white flag.
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