There, as a schoolboy, he had encountered a sign that featured a shoe with a spiky heel in the middle of a red circle with a diagonal slash.

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Aged in oak barrels for at least two years, Chianti Classico wines are identified by a black rooster within a red circle on the neck of the bottle, signaling membership of the Chianti Classico Consortium.

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He pulls up a slide on his iPad to illustrate: it shows a white circle and a red square.

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These are generally indicated by a colored icon with a bright, flaming red circle around it.

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The logo that received the ballot boost features a shaded football at its center against a red-and-blue circle fringed by nautical-looking spikes.

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We circle past a red-painted mosque at the village of Aday and arrive at one of the few Berber houses in the region that is still occupied.

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The best deals show up as a big green circle, while overpriced seats are marked with a smaller red dot.

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Staples, in particular, has leveraged the naming rights to the Los Angeles Lakers arena into a lot of airtime on national TV, including three games of the NBA finals, where the red circle logo was often visible to viewers.

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