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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While some may wear the designation as a badge of honor, many associate it with a specific form of humiliation.
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
Experts told Fortune—that unlike your usual mindfulness exercises—raw dogging is dangerous because people are doing it for a badge of honor online, instead of to actually switch off and therefore taking meditating to the extreme.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
For Rodriguez Curras, a graduate student at the UW-Madison at the time, working with scat is a badge of honor.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
Social media quickly filled with photos of women with their pets, alongside snarky memes and many embraced it as a badge of honor.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
Experts told Fortune—that unlike your usual mindfulness exercises—raw dogging is dangerous because people are doing it for a badge of honor online, instead of to actually switch off and therefore taking meditating to the extreme.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
For Rodriguez Curras, a graduate student at the UW-Madison at the time, working with scat is a badge of honor.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
Social media quickly filled with photos of women with their pets, alongside snarky memes and many embraced it as a badge of honor.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
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