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Recent Examples on the WebNoun
What is the history of the bisexual pride flag?
—Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
Demonstrators continued Monday outside the Knesset, or parliament, turning the streets surrounding the building and the Supreme Court into a roiling sea of blue-and-white Israeli flags dotted with rainbow Pride banners.
—Laurie Kellman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
By midday, tens of thousands of protesters had packed central Jerusalem, flooding the area around the Knesset, the prime minister’s office, and the Supreme Court with a sea of Israeli flags and a cacophony of drums, horns and chants.
—Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
Tens of thousands of Israelis poured into the streets in protest after Netanyahu’s announcement, blocking Tel Aviv’s main artery, transforming the Ayalon highway into a sea of blue-and-white Israeli flags and lighting a large bonfire in the middle of the road.
—Ilan Ben Zion, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
Demonstrators gathered again Monday outside the Knesset, or parliament, turning the streets surrounding the building and the Supreme Court into a roiling sea of blue-and-white Israeli flags dotted with rainbow Pride banners.
—Ilan Ben Zion And Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2023
That was evident in Waco on Saturday, with hundreds of supporters wearing the traditional red MAGA hats, dozens of flags whipping in the wind and a handful of people donning extravagant outfits.
—Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
Among their many triumphs, the group has been proactive in securing several avenues to help fight the fight — including the 2022 creation of UkraineDAO, an NFT of the Ukrainian flag that raised more than $7 million only two days after Russia’s first military invasion.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
At around the same time, Queen Elizabeth was photographed at Windsor Castle in front of a huge display of flowers in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s national flag.
—Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 22 Mar. 2023
Verb
The report also found that school districts that mostly instructed students remotely during the 2020-21 school year recorded the highest share of students flagged to be held back another year.
—Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
Efforts to remove books began to rise during the pandemic, often spreading from one community or school district to another through social media, as lists of books flagged as inappropriate circulated online.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
Stamina, meanwhile, allows the TSMC scientists to push this game of atoms forward without flagging, without losing patience, through trial and error after error.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
But here’s the rub: The DeepCom paper by Microsoft and Beihang University did not get flagged by any reviewers, says Jiang.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
When Rite Aid employees flagged concerns internally, these were often dismissed.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
The flaw, now flagged, had been fixed.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 Mar. 2023
Several of the videos were removed after The New York Times flagged them to the company.
—Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
Luke MacGregor—Bloomberg/Getty Images Martin Gruenberg could not have picked a more prescient time to flag risks in the U.S. banking industry.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
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