nom de plume

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Recent Examples of nom de plume Charlie Peacock’s stage name sounds like it was designed to be the nom de plume for a pop superstar, not someone who would become more renowned for his behind-the-scenes work as a producer, songwriter and label owner. Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025 The premise was a fiction—the column wasn’t written by the editor but by the novelist Donald G. Mitchell, who wrote mostly under the nom de plume Ik Marvel. Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 In this sparkling novel, Cate Kay is just that: the nom de plume of a bestselling author who doesn't really exist, after a tragedy in her youth sent her on the run under a succession of different identities. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024 Cindy Lee is the nom de plume of the musician and drag artist Patrick Flegel, who, back in the late two-thousands and early twenty-tens, fronted the Canadian post-punk band Women. Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nom de plume
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Noun
  • In an effort to minimize any attention on himself, Styles opted out of signing up with his own name and instead ran the Sunday race under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos (a play on the name of Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos) while wearing a headband and sunglasses.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Wearing a headband and sunglasses, Harry Styles ran the Berlin Marathon in under three hours, reportedly using the pseudonym Sted Sarandos.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge (a pen name for the anonymous author), Demon Slayer debuted in 2016 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Nom de plume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nom%20de%20plume. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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