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An example use of pennant in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… the mets win a pennant and guess what in …”
A pennant is a long, triangular flag with a triangular piece of cloth attached to the top of a long pole.
the word pennant occurs in english on average 1.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pennant can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) leisure and entertainment;
3) transport and travel;