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Recent Examples of code word
Prudent families can also come up with a code word to use in an emergency which a scammer will never know.
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Steve Weisman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Rana recommends coming up with a secret code word to use with your family.
—Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Prudent families can also come up with a code word to use in an emergency which a scammer will never know.
—Steve Weisman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Finally, the correct authenticator code word matched what was in my hands.
—Steve Koester, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Steve Weisman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Rana recommends coming up with a secret code word to use with your family.
—Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Prudent families can also come up with a code word to use in an emergency which a scammer will never know.
—Steve Weisman, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Finally, the correct authenticator code word matched what was in my hands.
—Steve Koester, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for code word
Noun
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Many of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2022
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This shift reminds us that dead metaphors aren’t always terminally dead.—
Rob Nixon,
Smithsonian,
23 Mar. 2018
Noun
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One analogy that doctors use is to think of the nervous system as an automobile.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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To use a boxing analogy, the Giants at least have to get to one knee next season.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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No metaphors or similes or hyperbolic language needed here – your kids are next.—
Rob Gagnon,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2025
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Her father was a scientist and worked for NASA, so her work, including The Body’s Question and Life on Mars, is infused with the cosmos and space and all these metaphors and similes tied to the most mysterious places in the universe.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco have long received EU funds to ‘manage migration’ (a euphemism for preventing people from leaving their territories, often by force).—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Whenever a flock is infected they are culled — a euphemism for killed — in order to stop the spread of the virus.—
Bruce Gil,
Quartz,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That last part is an apt metaphor for the city, which is on its sixth or 20th reinvention of itself, the days in which the Big Three auto companies created more than 470,000 jobs in the city and state of Michigan in the late ’70s are long gone.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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While Nathan Fielder can still pay off his absurdly meticulous re-creation of a Houston airport terminal and the dozens of mimicked airline crew members and Panda Express workers inside it, the captain/co-pilot dynamic is proving to be an endlessly elastic metaphor.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.—
Giles Harvey,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Apr. 2020
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“Code word.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/code%20word. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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