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cognomens

noun

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plural of cognomen

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a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual richly deserved the cognomen of "Butterfingers"

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a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known "Christopher Columbus" is the Latinized cognomen of the navigator who was known to his Spanish crewmates as Cristóbal Colón

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Noun

In a Mexican family where several women shared the same name, nicknames were inevitable.

— Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
The moon's nicknames, like April's Pink Moon, May's Flower Moon, or June's Strawberry Moon, originated from Native Americans', Colonial Americans', and other cultures' names for the moon.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 July 2026

Definition of nicknames

Noun

So the professional bodybuilder, now 39, started putting some of his savings into popular US tech stocks — names like Google, Apple and Nvidia.

— Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Or why filmmakers such as Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield at the height of their success would leave their families, and end up working in Mexico, England or Italy, often forbidden even to use their real names.

— John Bleasdale, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of names

Noun

Last year, those bases reverted to their original names, but with different namesakes who share Confederate surnames.

— Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
Like most Spanish people, Yamal, who turned 19 on Monday, has two surnames — one inherited from his father, another from his mother.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of surnames

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Expect to see names like Helaena, Baela, and Alicent all become popular monikers for princesses-in-training in the next few years—dragons not included.

— Parents, Parents, 31 July 2026
The Bachelor Nation star and his wife landed on the twins' first names after testing them out with River, who didn't hesitate to make the monikers part of her everyday vocabulary even before her little sisters were born.

— Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of monikers

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Hochman detailed a number of prosecutions, including the sentence of one man to a life sentence plus seven years with the possibility of parole for a March 23 attack, during which racial epithets were uttered.

— City News Service, Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
Social media has teemed with unsavory videos of Argentinean misbehavior in the stadiums, including fans hurling racial epithets at a Black American influencer and showering Egyptians with beer.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 16 July 2026

Definition of epithets

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Scott will be defending her WBC and WBA middleweight titles, but no one is giving her much of a chance to beat Shields.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
In the interest of shoring up its already robust and very impressive 2026 slate, the Toronto International Film Festival has today announced its 11 final titles, including new films from Martin McDonagh, Guy Nattiv, and Werner Herzog.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of titles

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Anthropic and Google DeepMind run comparable capability frameworks, and their next frontier releases will reveal whether Critical designations become routine or stay an OpenAI story.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
The high court’s 6-3 conservative-majority ruling curtailed lower courts’ ability to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from terminating TPS designations.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026

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