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Mom's favorite byword is “You can get more flies with honey than with vinegar”.
nationally, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive has become a byword for luxury retailing
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But the problem with such a recommendation is that patient engagement will be all the more difficult to sustain with a country that is once again a byword for oppression and human rights violations.
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Sebastian Strangio, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
In recent years, Portland has become a byword for fashionable left-wing guff, including the notion that crime and homelessness are little more than voluntary social constructs that are better fought with kind words and substantial welfare spending than with the assiduous enforcement of the law.
—The Editors, National Review, 23 May 2024
The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
The designer, who became a byword for glamour, was even written into the popular series’ script.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
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Sebastian Strangio, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
In recent years, Portland has become a byword for fashionable left-wing guff, including the notion that crime and homelessness are little more than voluntary social constructs that are better fought with kind words and substantial welfare spending than with the assiduous enforcement of the law.
—The Editors, National Review, 23 May 2024
The riverside market town, Totnes, has become a byword for an outdoorsy, artistic community—catnip to the tourists who bunch around the estate agent windows.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
The designer, who became a byword for glamour, was even written into the popular series’ script.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Byword.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byword. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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