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Recent Examples of hypocorism
Someone named the fog Karl, but none of our other weather gets a hypocorism.
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Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocorism
Noun
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The few developers outside North America willing to pay for the use of his family name were mostly building condominiums in lower-rent parts of the developing world.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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Among them is Gao, who grew up in the remote mountains of Guizhou and asked to only be identified by her family name.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
5 Aug. 2025
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At the time of Diana's death, the future Duchess of Edinburgh was a public relations professional known by her maiden name, Sophie Rhys-Jones, and was dating Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
28 July 2025
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Ask Lucy ‘Tough’ Bronze — her middle name taken from her mother Diane’s maiden name.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
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Photographs of Eric Blair, whose pen name was George Orwell, from his Metropolitan Police file, c.1940.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Her project about the fearless detective, who was authored by multiple writers under one pen name, was all but over.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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Steel explained his client’s sobriquet to the jury, too.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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And all of that mimicked the gloriously madcap fox hunt, minus hounds and the fox and made the horse the focus — hence the sobriquet for the sport, National Hunt racing.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Landecker, whose middle name really is Records, left WLS in 1981, going through an alphabet soup of radio stations, including stops in Toronto and Cleveland.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Founded by Virginia natives, and inspired by NFL quarterback Tyrod Taylor’s middle name, friends Dex Robinson and Taylor have created the Diallo brand name in search of refining a lifestyle suited for the modern man and sports aficionado.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Dickens had taken a nom de plume in the tradition of journalists and periodical writers, but there was no need to conceal his identity.—
Kirsty McHugh,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Aside from being a fruit and a nickname for New Zealanders, Kiwi is also a brand name of New Zealand-style bacon that's also popular in Australia.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
12 Aug. 2025
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His nickname for me, sometimes, is Ice Queen, which is vaguely offensive.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
8 Aug. 2025
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For example, Katie is a diminutive of Katherine and Lisa is a diminutive of Elizabeth.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2025
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Residing on hillside slopes and gently rolling valleys surrounding the stately medieval village of Montalcino, vineyards in the Brunello di Montalcino DOCG are home to a clone of Sangiovese known locally as Brunello, which is a diminutive of the Italian word for brown.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Hypocorism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocorism. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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