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Swanson, whose pen name is Julie Marie, was born in Far Rockaway, New York, and moved to Oceanside in the early 1980s with her two sons.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025 -
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
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The company operates under the trade names Ryan Homes, NVHomes, and Heartland Homes.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
12 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Shortening Shortening, most often referred to by our readers simply as the brand name Crisco, has been a Southern baking necessity for generations.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
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In one episode, Helly R. (played by Britt Lower) can be seen taking off a tan leather heel, the brand name of which had been scrubbed from the insole.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 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
Noun
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Older internet vernacular involved quoting memes or making references to nerd culture, but brain rot offers strange sentence constructions and rhetorical tics with a broad range of possible applications.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2025
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Dishes like orange chicken and General Tso’s chicken became part of the greater American culinary vernacular in the woks of the Panda restaurants.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Coca-Cola’s term for the supply points is really a misnomer, the brief’s argument suggests.—
Ryan Finley,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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In truth, tri-fold is a misnomer since there are only two folds, but the three screens form a clever design that unfurls to a full 10.2 inches.—
Simon Hill,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
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Uruguayan American men’s and womenswear fashion designer Gabriela Hearst launched her sustainable, eponymous label in 2015.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Talk to your healthcare provider about how much magnesium to take for sleep, and follow the dosage recommendation on the supplement label.—
Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH,
Health,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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