Example Sentences

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A vice signaler typically violates moral or other standards of an out-group precisely in order to look good to the fellow members of some in-group.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

A virtue signaler is trying to look good and a vice signaler is trying to look bad—but not to everyone.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

So the woman nicknamed Pixie became a signaler.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

The intruder would then reciprocate or retreat if it was much smaller than the signaler.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Almost immediately the "tink-tink" of the bell of the signaler to the engine-room told that the ship was headed after another whale.

From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis