Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surnaming
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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
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Anyone who thinks that this is an issue that could have been solved by nominating a couple more Spider-Man movies is fooling themselves.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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At that state party convention, delegates rejected then gubernatorial nominee Mike Braun's preferred running mate, instead nominating Beckwith by several dozen votes.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
2 Dec. 2025
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Snow squalls and high winds The CBS News Detroit weather team has been monitoring the forecast all weekend, designating Monday as a NEXT Weather Alert Day because of the potential impacts.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
29 Dec. 2025
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Defense attorney Kathy Nester did not object, and Graf granted the request, officially designating Kirk's widow as the victim's representative.—
Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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In Russia, celebrants observe the holiday by taking part in the Eastern Orthodox tradition of baptizing themselves in cold lakes.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
5 Jan. 2026
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In turn, executives for the film were against ABC moving forward with titling the series Yours and Ours, which led to changing the show's name, first to The Bradleys and later to The Brady Bunch.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
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Interestingly, fans of The Bodyguard will have a hand in titling the new Netflix movie — keep an eye on the Instagram pages of Meester, Padalecki and Center to find out more.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 Nov. 2025
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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
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First, Monty Miller (a suave, anguished Jon Hamm), Tommy’s lifelong friend and billionaire founder of M-Tex, dies suddenly, but not before naming the fixer as the new company president.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Rosado proposed an alternative of naming Reyes interim city manager on a six-month basis, but none of his colleagues backed him.—
Tess Riski
January 8,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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In March, tensions between the two governments escalated when the US deported more than 200 Venezuelan migrants, labeling them criminals, to the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador.—
Germán Padinger,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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Others may contain caffeine without clearly labeling it at all.—
Simon Spichak,
Health,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Surnaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surnaming. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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