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surnaming

verb

present participle of surname

as in styling

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Finish the look by styling the pants with an airy white blouse and cherry red flats.

— Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
Bieber offset her tiny baby blue minidress with her nearly-black tresses, styling the dark locks in a long single ponytail with face-framing curtain bangs.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 19 Sep. 2026

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Voters also will be nominating candidates for the entire state Legislature, where Republicans hold a roughly 40-vote majority in the 400-member House and outnumber Democrats in the Senate 16-8.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
And in the event that Chris Hansen is indeed the role that finally lands the actor a nomination, in a very literal sense, the Academy will also be nominating him for The Odyssey.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

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Indeed, the administration has wielded its power against Anthropic, with the Pentagon previously designating the company a rare supply-chain risk and stalled the release of its Mythos model.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
But the Supreme Court ruled that federal law hadn’t blocked states from designating grace periods.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

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But experts caution these numbers don't counteract the overall generational trend of the children of practicing French Catholics no longer going to Mass or baptizing their babies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
His nanny was his fierce protector and insulated him from the depredations of Nazis and their enablers, baptizing him and teaching him to handily hurl anti-Jewish epithets to fit in.

— Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026

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Agada often looks to literature when titling his work — not to curate the viewing experience or interpretation of the work, but to add another layer of meaning.

— Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
This particularly bizarre corner of the practice (a band titling a song after another band who have a song with their name) actually has precedent, though.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of titling

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The ruling gave hijras official status as a minority community, entitling them to various forms of government assistance.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
The superintendent, general counsel and chief auditor qualify for the supplements due to provisions in their contracts entitling them to the same increases as other administrative staff, officials said.

— Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026

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When Bob Iger released a statement naming me as his successor, the news stunned most people at the company, catching them entirely off guard.

— Bob Chapek, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
The group also reflected its bicultural identity by naming artists from across the musical spectrum who have joined them on stage, including 50 Cent, Bobby Shmurda, YG and Bobby Pulido.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of naming

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Although heavily implied, officers at the news conference stopped short of labeling Betkouski as a suspect in the Tylenol murders.

— Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Gardner said that the insurer missed the standard two-year deadline to recover the money and is now labeling routine billing as fraud to avoid legal time limits.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026

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