surnaming

present participle of surname

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for surnaming
Verb
  • Ranee personally prefers styling her flare jeans with a kitten heel like this best-selling pair.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The arrival carpet was bestrewed with attendees in designer garb, with Sweeney in one of Christian Cowan‘s latest designs and Hudson styling Carolina Herrera’s fabric-draping iteration.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Takaichi would be nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There is even talk of nominating the Tabarchine saga for UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
    Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Apart from operating results, the quarter also saw the stunning resolution to a long-running family drama, as patriarch Rupert Murdoch reached a settlement designating his son, Lachlan, as principal heir to his media empire.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The conservative Heritage Foundation, the architects of Project 2025, have encouraged the President to focus on transgender people and their families, designating them as domestic terrorists.
    Colleen Hamilton, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sony Pictures has made Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Network follow-up official, titling it The Social Reckoning and setting a fall theatrical release of October 9, 2026.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The complaint alleges Johnson failed to disclose restricted stock units entitling him to 330,000 shares in his January 2024 bankruptcy petition.
    Zach Everson, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Per Pete Thamel of ESPN, Kent State removed the interim head coaching label from Mark Carney, naming him the permanent head coach.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The council received at least a dozen letters and public comments to support naming the sign on Lafayette Boulevard and Cass Avenue — the intersection near the former Detroit Free Press building, 321 Lafayette — after Spina, who died in 1995.
    Dana Afana, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of simply labeling a photo as a dog or a cat, researchers can now train models that compose music, draft text, or even invent new molecules.
    Chelsea Haney October 30, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
  • From 2007 to 2010, Israel limited food imports to a caloric threshold just above starvation level, and blocked housing materials, infrastructure supplies, and other basic goods from entering the territory, labeling them as dual-use—having potential military applications as well as civilian ones.
    Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The soap's sensual marketing theme earned mixed reactions on social media, with some users dubbing it a gimmick and questioning the item's cleanliness.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Think visual effects, dubbing and storyboarding.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Surnaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surnaming. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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