How to Use name-calling in a Sentence
name-calling
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Well, except for the bad stuff — the armchair experts, the name-calling on social media, the chorus and the doubt.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
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Taped in April, the three-parter included plenty of name-calling.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
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Taped in April, the three-parter included plenty of name-calling.
—Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
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Just name-calling and false statements as to the origin of the prosecution.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2024
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Yes, but: His statement after the shooting had its own name-calling.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 14 July 2024
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Taped in April, the three-part special included plenty of name-calling.
—Farai Bennett, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
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After an ensuing back-and-forth about name-calling, Stahl offered to move on.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
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The issue of violence — not yelling or name-calling, but violence — should not be swept under the rug.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
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Meanwhile, the ruling also did not stop the name-calling that has long accompanied SB9 and SB10.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
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The company stressed the need to be respectful: no trolling, no name-calling, no politics.
—Nico Grant, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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That led to criticism that Salazar was acting like the Cuban regime and devolved later into name-calling.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
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Johnny and Delbert went over the school rules: no refunds, no talking back to your teachers, no name-calling, no drugs, no leaving trash inside the trucks.
—Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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With no clear path forward, the Republican party has resorted to name-calling and finger-pointing, much to the glee of of late-night TV writers.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
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Something that used to be name-calling, an embarrassment, on a bus or a playground and might end up in a fight, now has a platform that’s shared and reshared and causes a sense of trauma all by itself.
—Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
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After a week of blame-shifting, name-calling and protests, New York politicians are coming to terms with the reality of housing and caring for thousands of new migrants.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 May 2023
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It wasn’t marked by the usually aggressive name-calling or overt annoyance.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 July 2023
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Overall, the exchanges were polite and substantive in a debate free of name-calling or hostility.
—Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
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There were frequent punishments, as well as pressure to sing the Russian anthem, bullying and name-calling by other students, the children said.
—Oleksandr Chubko Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
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My partner is not physically abusive but checks a lot of other boxes: yelling, vicious anger, name-calling, silent treatments.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
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But at a town hall hosted by the network on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential campaign, resumed the lies and name-calling that marked his presidency.
—Marie Solis, New York Times, 14 May 2023
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The researchers spent four years investigating elephant name-calling, including 14 months of fieldwork in Kenya.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
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But aside from name-calling, liberals in the legal field struggled to react to what was essentially a political problem.
—Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
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Your job as her boss is to identify and articulate when her behavior crosses the line from boisterous to bullying, such as sarcasm, name-calling and mockery.
—Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
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The 52-page book, full of name-calling and mud-slinging, doesn’t offer much new information and reads like a collection of personal memos strung together into a narrative.
—Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
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Collaboration, not name-calling While Washington politics tend to be polarized and tribal, Hough says that’s not his style.
—Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
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According to a recent study, nearly three-quarters of those using the feature have experienced incidents such as name-calling, bullying and threats.
—Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2023
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Trump’s approach swung from fawning praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping to unrelieved enmity and pointless name-calling.
—Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
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What ensues is a hilarious lightbulb moment for the three women, which results in a lot of shrieking, name-calling, insult-hurling, and overall absurdity.
—Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2023
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Their approval brought to a close a contentious labor dispute that included name-calling and a series of punishing strikes that imposed high costs on the companies and led to significant gains in pay and benefits for UAW workers.
—CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
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Former President Donald Trump is known for his unconventional name-calling on the campaign trail, often taking to social media to launch blistering attacks against other politicians.
—Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
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