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Recent Examples of cryptonym
The Stellarwind cryptonym replaced it soon afterward.
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Barton Gellman, Wired, 24 May 2020
Barton Gellman, Wired, 24 May 2020
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Craig plays William Lee, a pseudonym Burroughs used to protect his parents from the then-scandalous aspects of his writing — homosexuality and hard drugs.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
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But Farage has distanced himself from comments made by Musk in support of British anti-immigration and anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, who is serving a prison sentence for contempt of court.Reuters, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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The police show Caroline Darian, the middle child and only daughter (who goes by a pen name) two photos recovered from her father’s electronics that show her sleeping in a strange position, with the duvet pulled back and the lights on.Catherine Porter, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Penned under Pyper’s sci-fi/thriller pen name Mason Coile, William hit store shelves September 3 via Putnam.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
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My top recommendation to avoid being inundated with spam emails is to use an alias email address.Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
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So intense were the demands that Watanabe - who used an alias to speak to CNN, for fear of jeopardizing future job prospects - began to develop health problems.Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
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Perhaps a little unfortunate given the recent bad publicity for a couple of different criminal networks using the same Matrix nomenclature.Davey Winder, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Color systems date back to at least the 17th century, but in the 19th century, an ornithologist named Robert Ridgway took issue with some of the existing nomenclature of colors, according to Daniel Lewis, who authored The Feathery Tribe, a biography of Ridgway.Emma Bowman, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
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In this sparkling novel, Cate Kay is just that: the nom de plume of a bestselling author who doesn't really exist, after a tragedy in her youth sent her on the run under a succession of different identities.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Cindy Lee is the nom de plume of the musician and drag artist Patrick Flegel, who, back in the late two-thousands and early twenty-tens, fronted the Canadian post-punk band Women.Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Situated along the Dalmatian coast between Split and Dubrovnik, this appellation has approximately 200 acres of vineyards, all certified organic — a first for the country.Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Yellow: The act of bestowing someone with a name or appellation.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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The sanctuary designation, which generally describes places that limit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration, did not garner much attention back then.Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
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El Salvador’s first TPS designation, the first designation since the program was enacted to law, came in 1990 amid the country’s civil war.Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Cryptonym.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cryptonym. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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