How to Use no-name in a Sentence
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Stay away from no-name brands at prices that seem too good to be true.
—Laura Daily, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
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Will America watch no-name teams battle for the crown or tune out?
—Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 Mar. 2023
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But to try to break in with sheer force of personality, to use the new tools of the internet to go from no-name to mainstream success?
—Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
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His father, Martin, drove a blue Chevrolet station wagon to work at a no-name law firm.
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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Tampa Bay’s secondary is banged up and rotating in some no-name players.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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An issue drama or an indie comedy packed with no-names was super risky.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
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Even Amazon has created one—and that’s in addition to the seemingly endless stream of no-name brands offered on its website.
—Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2023
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These are no-name social media cowards, no different from kids who scrawl horrible things on bathroom walls.
—Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
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Looking nothing like the team that doodled its way to season-opening wins over three no-name teams, UCLA surged into a 35-30 halftime lead thanks to a rare level of early season intensity.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
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Bargain bin, no-name smart light switches and smart plugs are particularly ubiquitous and often work with every smart home platform but Apple’s.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2023
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The group began spending dozens of hours each week navigating the byzantine web of network infrastructure, trying to ferret out connections between no-name intermediaries to track down Kiwi Farms’s new home.
—Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
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