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noun

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Recent Examples of no-name
Noun
Those no-name machines in hotels or corner stores often come with inflated fees and terrible exchange rates. Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 28 Apr. 2025 The no-name Marlins did, too, coming back to win the game in the ninth inning, 5-4. Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025 The notices of firings and leaves come on top of hundreds of USAID contractors receiving no-name form letters of termination over the weekend, according to copies that the AP viewed. Ellen Knickmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, thousands of other employees are preparing to leave the federal workforce this coming week, including probationary civilian workers at the Pentagon and contractors at the U.S. Agency for International Development who received no-name form letters of termination over the weekend. Steve Peoples, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for no-name
Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-name
Adjective
  • When Tony's security company faces an attack from unknown malicious forces, the family goes on the run across Europe while figuring out who is after them, according to Paramount.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that matchup, recently crowned UFC welterweight champ Jack Della Maddalena looks to stave off the charge of ex-UFC lightweight kingpin Islam Makhachev.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Next, tweens can pick a lightweight, hypoallergenic moisturizer with a texture that appeals to them.
    Khanh T.L. Tran, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The brand’s giant green owl mascot dances badly, makes obscure pop culture references and pokes fun at the company’s push notifications.
    Leeron Walter, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, compared to 2005’s Broken Flowers, this is a wilfully obscure step back to his deadpan, experimental roots, a gentle, almost deliberately un-film that is best not viewed in too much proximity to the witching hour.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 100 Years of Summer bourbon winks at the past by packaging the hooch in the same half-pint bottle ol’ Annie used to hide.
    Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Fat half-pints sagging comfortably in his back pocket.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, New Yorker, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • No, that’s what would happen to a noncelebrity such as yourself.
    Dave Barry, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2022
  • While Kardashian certainly wasn't the first celebrity (or even noncelebrity) to wear a vintage or archival garment, this particular line of criticism quickly became the focus of the ire directed at Kardashian.
    Racquel Gates, CNN, 10 May 2022
Noun
  • The reasons for the show’s appeal are manifold, starting with the odd-trio chemistry of the three leads (Short, plus his longtime co-conspirator Steve Martin and relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez).
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The new telescope does, though, have a whippersnapper nipping at its heels.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • None of these nobodies is performing like Grimes just yet, and until someone does Grier better get active trying to find a handful of veteran cornerbacks whom this team can call on, and sign to patch up the weakest unit on the team.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Most of the movie is a vaguely comical swipe at Napoleon in domestic life—an awkward lover, a jealous husband, an inveterate complainer, and in sum an annoying twerp.
    Kyle Smith, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Kind of a little twerp, now and again.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022

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“No-name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-name. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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