under the name (of) (someone/something)

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—used to say that something officially or legally belongs to a specified person

The car is still under the name of my deceased mother.

—used to say that something has or uses the name of a specified person

We have dinner reservations under the name Jones.

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group which led the offensive, taking the cities of Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Damascus in a matter of days, has Islamist roots and was once affiliated with al Qaeda under the name of Nusra Front. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024 The fashionable Zirker worked as an editor for the daily 8 Uhr Abendblatt and wrote political commentary for Die Weltbühne under the name Johannes Bückler. —

Longreads, 5 Dec. 2024 TikTok user Kate, who posts under the name @riverskate13, shared a video of her and partner with their new addition on November 30. —

Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024 Around the same time, a law student named Kennedy started posting videos of herself playing Animal Crossing and other, similarly soothing games, under the name @cozy.games, eventually accumulating six hundred thousand followers on TikTok and countless imitators. —

Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for under the name (of) (someone/something)

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