Thesaurus results for NOM DE GUERRE

nom de guerre

noun

ˌnäm-di-ˈger

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as in pseudonym

a fictitious or assumed name an acerbic and provocative blogger known to most only by her online nom de guerre

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Recent Examples of nom de guerre The officers knew him by his nom de guerre: El Niño Guerrero, the head of the prison gang Tren de Aragua. —

Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz identified the spokesperson as Abu Obeida, the nom de guerre for the person who represented Hamas' Qassam Brigades. —

Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2025 Her weird choice of nom de guerre was Ann, an unadorned name that never sounded right when the DJ announced one of her stage sets. —

Rax King, People.com, 29 July 2025 With that, the team will embrace a new nom de guerre: the BONDS Flying Roos. —

Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for nom de guerre

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pseudonym

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His heroes aren’t athletes or movie stars but anonymous Twitter accounts—anime avatars and pseudonyms with cryptic bios—whose followers track their trades with devotional intensity.

— Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
The creator, who used a pseudonym, helpfully carved these guidelines on the stones in eight different languages.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Mar. 2026

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