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as in nickname
a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual
a soccer player whom everyone knows as "Mayhem," her adopted alias in the sports world that was created from her surname
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as in pseudonym
a fictitious or assumed name
the English author Eric Blair, better known under the alias of George Orwell
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Recent Examples of alias
By Time, the Berklee College of Music graduate published under two other music aliases.
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Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
These addresses, called aliases, forward any incoming mail to your primary inbox, but the original sender never sees your real address.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Others have played the alias game for weirder reasons.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
While Wonderland released an album called Genesis under her Whyte Fang alias in April of 2023, Ghost World is her first project since giving birth to her first child in June 2023.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
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Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
These addresses, called aliases, forward any incoming mail to your primary inbox, but the original sender never sees your real address.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Others have played the alias game for weirder reasons.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
While Wonderland released an album called Genesis under her Whyte Fang alias in April of 2023, Ghost World is her first project since giving birth to her first child in June 2023.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alias
Noun
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Colleagues described a popular chaplain with nicknames for the tiny patients and soothing words for their bleary-eyed parents.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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The waterways that have earned the city the nickname Venice of America.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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This stands in contrast to many of the investment claims on social media, where people regularly post fake or falsified information under pseudonyms.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
10 Sep. 2025
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This is a pseudonym for a woman who lost her job as a tutor during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then was recruited to work in a customer service job in Thailand.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The emergence of al-Sheikh, who also uses the surname Alalshikh, as the dominant figure in the sport has been a catalyst for many of these changes.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yuliia Kaveshnikova/Getty Images The new husband's last name is the same as u//Specken_zee_Doitch's first name, and because the couple have hyphenated each other's surnames, their last names are the same as u//Specken_zee_Doitch's full name.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Then there was the woman who was Speaker of the House and would walk around talking to herself, screaming out epithets to imaginary people.—
Larry David,
New Yorker,
28 Aug. 2025
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Terrell represented a Black teenager who’d been expelled from a Los Angeles high school for punching a white referee during a football game after the referee allegedly had directed racial epithets at him.—
Peter Elkind,
ProPublica,
27 Aug. 2025
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But so far, Samsung has stuck with the Project Moohan moniker.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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The private equity firm Blackstone (commonly confused with BlackRock) more or less invented this buy-to-rent strategy in 2012, under the moniker Invitation Homes.—
Alex Mayyasi,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Alias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alias. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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