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Mom's favorite byword is “You can get more flies with honey than with vinegar”.
nationally, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive has become a byword for luxury retailing
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By the time of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, pearls in general were a byword for elegance and modernity.
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, the Brussels ghetto that has become a byword for poverty, unemployment, and radical Islamism.
—Kenan Malik, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2015
The Orient Express has been a byword for opulent travel since the 19th century.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Known as the Pullman lounges (the American industrialist’s name had, by that point, become a byword for luxury train travel), Wagons-Lits’ new car was introduced on various daytime services.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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Lily Templeton, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
Abaaoud grew up in Molenbeek, the Brussels ghetto that has become a byword for poverty, unemployment, and radical Islamism.
—Kenan Malik, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2015
The Orient Express has been a byword for opulent travel since the 19th century.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Known as the Pullman lounges (the American industrialist’s name had, by that point, become a byword for luxury train travel), Wagons-Lits’ new car was introduced on various daytime services.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Byword.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byword. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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