badge of honor/pride
noun phrase
: a mark or expression of pride
He wore his ethnic heritage as a badge of honor/pride.
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Making comedy legend Will Ferrell break character is a badge of honor for any comedic actor.
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Yet posting a photo from the hike’s Edenic summit, which is reached by climbing 3,922 slick steel steps, has become a social media badge of honor.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
By that point, however, such rhetoric was commonplace among Russia’s growing movement of neo-imperialists, and a rebuke from the traditional intelligentsia was a badge of honor.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
Pushing harder and doing more is a badge of honor for many professionals.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Yet posting a photo from the hike’s Edenic summit, which is reached by climbing 3,922 slick steel steps, has become a social media badge of honor.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
By that point, however, such rhetoric was commonplace among Russia’s growing movement of neo-imperialists, and a rebuke from the traditional intelligentsia was a badge of honor.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
Pushing harder and doing more is a badge of honor for many professionals.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for badge of honor/pride
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“Badge of honor/pride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/badge%20of%20honor%2Fpride. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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