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The prize's namesake, author Mark Twain, divined his pen name from a navigation term used by steamboat captains on a river.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025 -
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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Expedia recognized $147 million in intangible asset impairment charges related to trade names within its B2C and trivago segments.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
7 Feb. 2025
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State business records show that Imperial Restaurant Group is a trade name under Jogan Companies Inc., which is owned by Dietrich and was founded in 2021.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
The Denver Post,
5 Feb. 2025
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The medication — taken weekly by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm — is a brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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On its inaugural flight, the Pilgrim didn’t carry a brand name.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Jan. 2025
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Charlie Peacock’s stage name sounds like it was designed to be the nom de plume for a pop superstar, not someone who would become more renowned for his behind-the-scenes work as a producer, songwriter and label owner.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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The premise was a fiction—the column wasn’t written by the editor but by the novelist Donald G. Mitchell, who wrote mostly under the nom de plume Ik Marvel.—
Christopher Carroll,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok—the list goes on—began developing their own vernacular and forming a network within Asia.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
5 Oct. 2024
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
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The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 June 2021
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The idea of an assist by a goalkeeper, in a huge amount of cases, is almost a misnomer.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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This milestone, in which the ionized soup became neutral atoms, is known as recombination (a misnomer, since nuclei and electrons had never combined before).—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Jan. 2025
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Scott—who has designed for Moschino, Adidas, Longchamp, Christian Louboutin, and his own namesake label—shared a series of posts via Instagram comparing Taylor-Joy’s look to a dress from his spring/summer 1998 collection.—
Robyn Merrett,
StyleCaster,
14 Feb. 2025
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Ye also caused a stir on Feb. 7 by announcing plans to collaborate with Sean Combs’ Sean John clothing label, and sharing sales of Yeezy products 50-50.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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