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gold star

noun

a gold-colored star displayed, as on a service flag, to indicate that a member of one's family, organization, or the like, was killed in war as a member of the armed forces.
Informal.
1. symbolic approval or recognition for outstanding merit or effort:
  You get the gold star for cooking such a gourmet dinner.
2. anything that represents an outstanding effort or achievement:
  Her promotion was the gold star she'd been working for.

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25

We are now able to see the gold stars for many results in the Google Search.

Like who, who let you, who gave you this gold star… and then HireVue comes along and says, Hey, we got this AI tool.

I see it as a benefit that folks can come to Vox and work with Vox Media or Vox and add a really big gold star to their resume.

The ranks of the Gold Star Mothers were populated with many women with white hair, mothers to children lost in the Vietnam War.

I think his inauguration is a gold-star day in the annals of American history.

The achievement is not a small matter, and I think he will be rewarded with a gold star in economic history.

Lorrie Moore gave Updike a gold star for his “erudition and hard work.”

He went armed, and fastened in the lining of his coat was the little gold star he had taken from the dead man's coat.

Those were the happy folks going to see the gold star and the Christmas greens in the church.

The gold star, the Christmas greens, had all the more attraction from their vagueness.

Neither was there a servant in a purple turban with the gold star to meet them and they were bewildered and lost.

Petronilla had a gold star set in her forehead by a fairy when she was a baby, Billy explained.

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