Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocorisms
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The estate has a long, storied history under many family names, but in 1575, the Essenault family rechristened it by contracting their family name to Issan.
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However, unlike similar programs, these folks have to stay true to their Southern roots and family names, a difficult feat in today’s modern world.
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For some families, maiden names or other significant surnames are carried on as first names.
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In a step that rights activists call an attempt to block a dual-surname system, Takaichi is calling for a law to allow the greater use of maiden names as aliases instead.
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Wishing you all a weekend of sweet sobriquets, unlikely party venues, and careful character development.
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The painting is an abstract map of Chicago titled after one of the city's many nicknames that originated in a Carl Sandburg poem.
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However, writing of any kind, with any message, is prohibited per Major League Baseball’s Uniform Regulations which provides in part that, ‘(a) Player may not write, attach, affix, embroider or otherwise display nicknames or messages on apparel or playing equipment…’.
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The Chawla said multiple campaign road signs were vandalized with racial epithets in two separate incidents.
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His nanny was his fierce protector and insulated him from the depredations of Nazis and their enablers, baptizing him and teaching him to handily hurl anti-Jewish epithets to fit in.
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Just as the upcycled uniforms were once worn by people, Wong’s collaborative range carries human-sounding first names.
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The show has too many blandly interchangeable characters, too much grimness, too much repetition (and not just of Targaryen first names) and too much thumb-twiddling.
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Her client’s closet filled with new items, the tags still attached.
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And the graffiti artists have discovered the old Brager-Gutman department store and managed to fill the upper stories with tags.
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Many have since been microchipped and given names.
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The seven kittens were given names meant to honor where they were born.
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“Hypocorisms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocorisms. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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