How to Use under a pseudonym in a Sentence

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  • He’s been known to log on under a pseudonym and play speed chess while drunk.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time that scholars have found stories written by Alcott under a pseudonym.
    Michael Casey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time that scholars have found stories written by Ms. Alcott under a pseudonym.
    Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The plaintiff’s request to proceed under a pseudonym requires approval from the court.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • It has been hung up until now because the school system objected to her filing under a pseudonym.
    Fox News, 30 June 2022
  • Jack White, whom Simpson deeply admires, even followed it under a pseudonym.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Rhode Island courts have a strong presumption against allowing someone to sue under a pseudonym, a rare exception to the rule of an open court system, the groups said.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • Rufus Griswold was Poe’s nemesis and wrote a scathing eulogy for him under a pseudonym.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Then, Raven and Max found an escort site advertising the services of Claudia, under a pseudonym.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Letters from Winston Churchill, a short story written under a pseudonym and a gold electronic wristwatch are some of the items once owned by Charles de Gaulle that will be up for auction next week.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • On a separate note, Rufus Griswold was Poe's nemesis who wrote a scathing eulogy for the poet under a pseudonym.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Hanania acknowledged writing the posts under a pseudonym and, since then, has only partly renounced his past.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • While attending Texas Lutheran University in the late ’80s, Nelson wrote a column in the student paper under a pseudonym.
    Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The undercover agent testified under a pseudonym at a separate trial for Speed in Virginia on gun charges.
    Michael Kunzelman, ajc, 8 May 2023
  • The newspaper was seeking a former convict to replace a double murderer who had been writing a column under a pseudonym.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Unbeknownst to his new girlfriend, Ellison, under a pseudonym, has written a novel that becomes a smash success.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Unbeknownst to his new girlfriend, Ellison, under a pseudonym, has written a novel that becomes a smash success.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Despite taking extreme efforts to keep details of their lives secret — including by having Davy travel under a pseudonym — reporters often turned up at places where the pair had agreed to meet, Harry’s lawyer wrote.
    Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Their faces must be covered, since her father is still politically active under a pseudonym.
    Max Norman, ARTnews.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Before beginning its analysis, the court noted that the defendants did not oppose the plaintiff’s motion to proceed under a pseudonym at the time of the motion, but sought the right to revisit the issue later on in the litigation process.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
  • Bremerton detectives are still hoping to piece together how Basham came to be living in Los Angeles under a pseudonym, Elton said.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Monk pushes Arthur to submit his novel under a pseudonym to the editors that previously rejected him.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In my world, the element of surprise — reserving under a pseudonym and making multiple unannounced visits — is key, since critics aspire to get the experience civilians do: same menu, same service, a bill at the end.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Carmen Mola has been known as Spain’s Elena Ferrante, a crime novelist said to be a university professor writing under a pseudonym.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But despite putting a face to the often abstract refugee experience, Nawabi — who appears in the film under a pseudonym — has maintained his identity and his privacy, forgoing media appearances and interviews about the film.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Lathrop, who wrote under a pseudonym, was making a point about counterintelligence—the flushing out of enemy spies and leakers who might compromise a spy agency’s precious secrets.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Cavalier said he’s being retaliated against for those comments and for writing a fictional book under a pseudonym about the experience of being a Black police officer.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • That love has propelled the politico’s side career as an author — a career that includes romantic suspense novels written under a pseudonym, a political thriller, two nonfiction books and, more recently, children’s books.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Publishing under a pseudonym, the writer produced a detective trilogy with an eccentric female police inspector as the protagonist, plumbing the underworld for clues to crimes.
    New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Sokola had originally sued Weinstein under a pseudonym but withdrew from the global settlement and filed the lawsuit independently.
    Chris Francescani, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2024

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