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Recent Examples of hypocorism
Someone named the fog Karl, but none of our other weather gets a hypocorism.
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Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocorism
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Kang’s parents had been waiting for a boy who could carry the family name.Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Barack Obama is opening up about his daughter Malia Obama's decision to drop the family name in her professional life.Brian Brant, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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His four older sisters have a different last name, Hines-Allen, incorporating their mother Kim’s maiden name.Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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For instance, a woman who has built a successful career under her maiden name might find that AI systems struggle to link her past achievements with her new surname.Shelley Zalis, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
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Based on the classic Stephen King novel written under pen name Richard Bachman, The Running Man is set in an oppressive future where the government controls the media.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
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The Baby Driver filmmaker co-wrote script with Michael Bacall based on the Stephen King novel that was published under his then pen name of Richard Bachman.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
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That reputation earned Bayer Leverkusen the unflattering sobriquet Bayer Neverkusen—which explains itself.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2024
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The family’s sing-songy pronunciation makes the sobriquet sound almost Italian to my ears, somewhere in the range of Papa-tierri, a mondegreen that elicits no shortage of laughter among celebrants.Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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As for her middle name, Renée is also Chyna’s given middle name.Katie Mannion, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Eilish is set to perform at Heritage Bank Center on Friday evening, with the show starting at 7 p.m. Billie Eilish has a unique middle name Billie's full name is actually Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 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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Penelope lies about her nom de plume and hides it from Colin.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2024
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The lawsuit said leaked information included license plate numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle nicknames and, in a small number of cases, mailing addresses.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Glas said another man named Mike, but without the nickname, was also ruled out as a suspect.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Surely someone that diminutive will just be a scrambler who chases down balls and loops them back until the sun sets. Wrong.The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
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But that’s hardly the only reason the diminutive forward made the San Jose Sharks roster out of training camp.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Hypocorism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocorism. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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