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Recent Examples of pen name
Despite the nearly identical nature of her pen name and the name of the conversion therapist, the author said similarities between the two were purely coincidental.
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Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
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
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
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
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pen name
Noun
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Published under the nom de plume Jonathan Gash, Lovejoy is a set of 24 books from Dr John Grant.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Most fans in her factory are broken, said the 39-year-old, using a pseudonym to speak freely without fear of reprisal.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Mar. 2026
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What the lawsuit alleged The lead plaintiff in the Bank of America case, who filed under the pseudonym Jane Doe, is a native of Russia who met Epstein in 2011.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pen%20name. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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