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signaler

American  
[sig-nuhl-er] / ˈsɪg nəl ər /
especially British, signaller

noun

  • signalers
    plural
  1. a person whose job is to send or use signals, such as a military serviceperson or a railroad employee.

  2. any person who conveys something by means of a signal or signals.

  3. a device or part that sends a signal.


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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

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

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

Therefore, the ingenuity of the signaler was called upon to invent names for certain of the letters most commonly confused.

From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride

“The overall operation — from Coach Parker to the signalers, to Sam, getting in the right protections, getting the right checks, executing — that’s the whole operation, and it was really good,” Freeman said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

There was also continuing disruption above ground as trains started to run again following Thursday’s strike by thousands of railway cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and other staff.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

In this tempest in a spit bucket, the Drys come across as virtue signalers, while the Wets are unnecessarily defensive.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

He communicates by radio with supervisors and signalers below.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2016

"Do you remember, Kate, how we lost five dollars finding out that Dale and me is signalers?"

From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock

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