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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nom de plume
Noun
  • Sasha, a 34-year-old who lives in Texas and requested to be identified by a pseudonym, is a domestic violence survivor.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Cincinnati legend had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. Wood, also known by his pseudonym Michael Xanadu, founded WEBN-FM with his father, Frank Wood Sr. in 1967.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Photographs of Eric Blair, whose pen name was George Orwell, from his Metropolitan Police file, c.1940.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
  • 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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“Nom de plume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nom%20de%20plume. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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