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as in nickname
a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual
a soccer player whom everyone knows as "Mayhem," her adopted alias in the sports world that was created from her surname
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as in pseudonym
a fictitious or assumed name
the English author Eric Blair, better known under the alias of George Orwell
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Recent Examples of alias
Zemmour told the court that Combs would stay under an alias.
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Nbc News, NBC news, 22 May 2025
The affidavit indicates that officials believe the name is an alias.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025
After Combs found out about Ventura Fine's relationship with Kid Cudi in 2011, Ventura Fine told her mother and Combs' assistant, Capricorn Clark, about Combs' threats of releasing explicit footage of her in retaliation using an alias email.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Group 123, known by a multitude of aliases including Cloud Dragon, InkySquid, Reaper, Red Eyes, and ScarCruft, among others, has been observed using custom malware and leveraging Windows application programming interface calls in ongoing attacks.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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Nbc News, NBC news, 22 May 2025
The affidavit indicates that officials believe the name is an alias.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025
After Combs found out about Ventura Fine's relationship with Kid Cudi in 2011, Ventura Fine told her mother and Combs' assistant, Capricorn Clark, about Combs' threats of releasing explicit footage of her in retaliation using an alias email.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Group 123, known by a multitude of aliases including Cloud Dragon, InkySquid, Reaper, Red Eyes, and ScarCruft, among others, has been observed using custom malware and leveraging Windows application programming interface calls in ongoing attacks.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alias
Noun
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One person helped by the nonprofit is Doña Chela, an undocumented 66-year-old woman who asked to be identified by her nickname.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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Now, being age 34 means that Dame Time, the nickname for Lillard, has already spent quite a lot of time on the basketball court.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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One of the mogul’s recent ex-girlfriends, a woman who testified under the pseudonym Jane, also mentioned Paul in her testimony.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
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Rooms were allegedly booked under assistants' names or Diddy's pseudonym, Frank Black, and Paul would bring in lights, baby oil, Astroglide, alcohol and small toiletries.—
Tracy Wright , Maria Paronich,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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Huang, who asked to be identified only by her surname for fear of being targeted, had seen her original doctoral offer at Vanderbilt University rescinded after federal cuts to research and programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion.—
Sara Braun,
Fortune,
21 June 2025
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The family has requested that their surname be withheld from publication.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The racist epithets — including a swastika and N***** spray-painted onto the concrete walls surrounding the park — were reported to the Miami Police on Monday afternoon in what the community and police are calling a hate crime.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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Barnyard epithets did not pepper the prepared speeches of most of Hegseth's predecessors.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The latter moniker was lifted from a Catholic high school that had been a local basketball powerhouse.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Stone came back around a few years later to advertise 1982’s Ain’t But One Way, the patchy final studio album under the Family Stone moniker, completed by a producer when Stone flaked on the sessions.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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“Alias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alias. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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