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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
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Police say that Caron searched for Narcan, which is a trade name for the overdose reversal drug naloxone, a little before midnight.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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The disclosure would need to include the developer’s name, the system’s trade name, and contact information for the employer.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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In 2024, the band sold their catalog, brand name and intellectual property to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group in a deal estimated to be over $300 million.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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AstraZeneca’s FluMist, the only nasal spray flu vaccine in the US that has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, is now available for home delivery in 34 states under the brand name FluMist Home.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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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
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Ludwig is the nom de plume of John Taylor, played by David Mitchell.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Over the last three decades, Rick Owens has built a universe with its own fashion vernacular—a world where high fashion meets dystopia and rebellion is the ultimate form of self-expression.—
Irina Grechko,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2025
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Endeavoring to make a 12-hour documentary on a subject that predates the invention of photography, and whose sources are written in an 18th-century vernacular, was in other respects a daunting mission.—
Sarah Botstein,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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There was no third option in this binomial exercise.—
Chantel Jennings,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
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The surreal part of the show’s title is a bit of a misnomer.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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The term has always been a bit of a misnomer, however.—
Adam Summers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
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Retro colors and soft fabric are two qualities that are driving shoppers to the label, which saw growth jump around 40% last year.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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Irvine now challenges herself with small print, crosswords, and product labels.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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