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• The people who know are the makeup artists, and none of the good ones name names.
  — Lauren Graham, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• Hanks did not name names when requested to do so by the BBC.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Hanks did not name names when requested to do so by the BBC.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Many candidates sprang to mind, but Poster wouldn’t name names.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Dunkelman didn't want to name names yet but thinks some candidates will emerge in the next few days.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 30 Nov. 2020
• When the interviewer asked her where the recipes had come from, Stewart didn’t name names.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Later the blind item began to look quaint in the face of brassier players, like TMZ, that were unafraid to name names and go for the jugular.
  — Michael Musto, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2021
• Cyrus doesn't name names, but fans didn't take long to speculate whether the song is about her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Mar. 2023
• Hurdle didn't name names but said one of his players became spooked when a TV in his room turned on twice in one night.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2022
• Who the song is about, as Swift didn't name names and has publicly feuded with several people over the years.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 Oct. 2022
• Avenatti pressed them to name names about who’d assigned their work.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• But changing the volume doesn't change votes -- and, tellingly, the president still didn't name names.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Taruc didn’t name names, but there are several people floated for the EPA’s top job that could fit that bill.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
• The agency did not name names, but Amazon, Facebook, and Google were widely considered to be on the list.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 17 June 2020
• With the formal proposal process months away, Trost and Tsukamoto declined to name names.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• A week later Kazan headed south to name names in Washington.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• Enter Email Sign Up Kohrs declined to name names or say which laws the jurors believed had been broken.
  — Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Murphy did not name names and Rylov, who was sitting next to him during the press conference, tried to paper the remark over.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• When he was asked why Indiana men’s basketball has failed to reach its potential, Dane Fife wasn’t afraid to name names.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2021
• When asked who had the conversation regarding their son's skin color, both Harry and Meghan declined to name names.
  — Elizabeth Elkind, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2021
• There has also been talk about the trial’s implications for #MeToo, which created a space for women to speak out about harassment and even, name names.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
• One of the judges was particularly angry on Valerio’s behalf, and even demanded that the young singer name names.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2023
• Throughout the interview, both Meghan and Harry were careful not to name names, which turned the public’s post-interview analysis into a game of guess-who.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2021
• Women now file harassment cases more often and name names, not only in the old whisper networks but also in the news and social media.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• While the article doesn’t name names, many large Western firms—some of which would be likely targets—have drastically scaled back business in Russia.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
• Several Eternals, not to name names, aren’t exactly superheroic in their physiques.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• The other major subplot in this episode wraps up the FBI’s case against Kurt, who landed in legal hot water for refusing to name names over the 1/6 insurrectionist who was part of his gun-training group.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 22 July 2021
• Although naturally no one is allowed to name names, Wahlberg teases that, in season 10, one major artist in particular will appear on the show and trick everyone until the very end.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Schnapp had previously hinted that the situation had resolved itself in a comment on one of his TikTok videos that did not name names, but appeared to reference the situation.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2022
• The letter doesn’t name names, but McCord does days later in talks with investigators and testimony before the Senate committee.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2022

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024