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Photographs of Eric Blair, whose pen name was George Orwell, from his Metropolitan Police file, c.1940.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025 -
Her project about the fearless detective, who was authored by multiple writers under one pen name, was all but over.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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By extending Lugo’s contract, Kansas City has doubled down on the future and taken one of the biggest trade names off the board just days ahead of this year’s deadline.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
28 July 2025
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One such special pattern can be found in the cabochons cut from Marston Marble, a trade name for a limestone filled with tiny tea- and cream-color ammonites that is found in what is now the English county of Somerset.—
Chantel Tattoli,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other established far-right groups still have infrastructure, a durable brand name, and the precedent that Trump might pardon them if things go awry.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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Also known by the brand name Sudafed, this common nasal decongestant is banned in Japan and Mexico.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Aug. 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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Dickens had taken a nom de plume in the tradition of journalists and periodical writers, but there was no need to conceal his identity.—
Kirsty McHugh,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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Interior richness is a part of quiet, part of one’s own interiority creating a vernacular that’s not overtly storytelling but is about the unspeakable, the silence, the quiet that Tina Campt and Fred Moten and others speak about.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 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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Psychosis may actually be a misnomer, says Dr. James MacCabe, a professor in the department of psychosis studies at King’s College London.—
Robert Hart,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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Even that word, discourse—a shorthand for the way that a particular topic gets put through the internet’s meat grinder—is a misnomer, because none of the participants is really talking to the others.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
30 July 2025
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Retail giants Walmart and Kroger both said in their latest earning reports that consumer demand for these cost-saving store labels is driving sales, even amid high grocery prices and consumer spending anxiety.—
Gordon Ebanks,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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Swift said in 2019 the rights to her albums were taken from her without her consent after investor and record executive Scooter Braun acquired her former record label.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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