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Mark’s readers, who knew how Jewish patronymics worked, would have understood what the villagers were throwing in Jesus’s face.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025 -
The list of those who left includes individuals' names, birth dates, patronymics and more, and identifies contract soldiers, mobilized soldiers, and conscripts.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
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This unusual celebrity baby name is technically a Japanese surname, but that didn’t stop Skai Jackson from bestowing it upon her baby girl.—
Marilyn La Jeunesse,
Parents,
8 Aug. 2025
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Cruise for years has reportedly been estranged from their 19-year-old daughter, Suri, who dropped her father’s surname last year.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
29 July 2025
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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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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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Monroe reveals that Lynne is the one who gave her the nickname, the inspiration for the song.—
Nancy Kruh,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Matronymic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matronymic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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