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Definition

a distinctive characteristic or attribute

or:

a mark on a sellable item to indicate its quality — especially a mark used in some countries to indicate the purity of a precious metal

It is a hallmark of our administration that...

Justice Breyer described Miranda rights as a "hallmark of American justice."
Our brand name is a hallmark of excellence.
I had sustained no external hallmark by my term of imprisonment, and I am vain enough to believe that the evil which I did had not a separate existence in my face.
E. W. Hornung -- Raffles
The words were like a Hallmark card, but the tone was new to him.
Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It's the difference between a Hallmark e-card and a handwritten letter.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
And if you do this, you are treading on the ground of craziness—a place where false impressions have all the hallmarks of reality.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
In short, in the precise situation that should have been the honorable hallmark of mankind, namely work, the worker was turned into a beast of burden.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Sophocles uses the heart to mean the center of emotion within the body, as do Dante, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Hallmark .... all the great writers.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Literacy is the hallmark of neither generals nor heroes.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
The group had finally concluded that energy conversion was the hallmark of life.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Archie's voice was gentle with assurance, the old gentleness they all recognized as Archie's hallmark when he was sailing high, wide and handsome.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
"The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma," he said.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
If we live, we do not carry these hallmarks down through the ages.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
You would never mistake one of her cards for a Hallmark, but I have never seen cards more heartfelt.
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
Outlined against the blue were the unchanged hallmarks of Schiahorn, Green Towers, and Dorfberg—Joachim's eyes rested on them.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
This bent toward perfectionism is a Keene hallmark and a prime reason she has enjoyed such a successful career.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
There are no Hallmark cards for breaking up with friends.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak
He receives a Hallmark card signed by both of his parents, a check for one hundred dollars, a navy blue cotton sweater from Filene's.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

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