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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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The Orient Express has been a byword for opulent travel since the 19th century.
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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
While the Cayman Islands and Switzerland have long been bywords for stashing money away from the U.S. government, the Cook Islands Trust is the true gold standard in wealth protection, experts say.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
For the Lebanese, such talk of encouraging one group to rise against another evokes memories of the civil war, when Lebanon’s religious sects were embroiled in an internecine, hugely destructive conflict that killed more than 150,000 people and turned Beirut into a byword for tragedy.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
While the Cayman Islands and Switzerland have long been bywords for stashing money away from the U.S. government, the Cook Islands Trust is the true gold standard in wealth protection, experts say.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
For the Lebanese, such talk of encouraging one group to rise against another evokes memories of the civil war, when Lebanon’s religious sects were embroiled in an internecine, hugely destructive conflict that killed more than 150,000 people and turned Beirut into a byword for tragedy.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Byword.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byword. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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