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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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Trump has pressured drugmakers to return drug manufacturing to the United States under the threat of 100% tariff on brand name drugs imported to the United States.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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Spectrum, the brand name for Charter Communications broadband and video, is launching a new app store and, separately, will partner with Apple on a selection of live Lakers games this season for Apple Vision Pro.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
9 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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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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Many of the terms are Gen Z and Alpha vernacular influenced by evolving social media trends.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 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
Noun
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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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For the first time, the Run x Andam showroom for avant-garde ready-to-wear labels ran alongside Première Classe in the Tuileries, benefiting from synergies and cross-traffic.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Just because the label looks right doesn’t mean the request is legitimate.—
Ken Colburn,
AZCentral.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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