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Every secret agent has a code name.
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Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, has long been an Anglo-American film event of epic proportions, from the 1962 CinemaScope extravaganza The Longest Day to Steven Spielberg's 1998 Saving Private Ryan.
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Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 29 May 2026
The title of his third album, REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, suggests an MCU movie in which our hero attempts to take on every problem plaguing the planet—and this time, Owusu isn’t giving his adversaries code names.
—Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 19 May 2026
Nothing can be written down, and no one can know everything, so much of the dialogue is a bewildering avalanche of codewords and code names.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Rawhide was Reagan's Secret Service code name.
—Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
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Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 29 May 2026
The title of his third album, REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, suggests an MCU movie in which our hero attempts to take on every problem plaguing the planet—and this time, Owusu isn’t giving his adversaries code names.
—Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 19 May 2026
Nothing can be written down, and no one can know everything, so much of the dialogue is a bewildering avalanche of codewords and code names.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Rawhide was Reagan's Secret Service code name.
—Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Code name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code%20name. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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