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a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known
a twisting road that deserved the appellation "Sidewinder Lane"
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Recent Examples of appellation
Beyond the bling of prestige cognac brands, or appellations such as armagnac, many consumers don’t understand what brandy is.
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Claire Dodd, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Rita Hills Chardonnay, which is sourced from four different vineyards within the appellation.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
Common among those individuals worthy of the exalted appellation is a temptation to vacate, in view of unacceptable compromise, the industry’s fraught financial space.
—Jeff Gibson, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Coming from one of the most famous French wine regions, the Bordeaux appellation is known for bold reds bursting with fruit, and is found in the world's finest wine cellars.
—Jaymi McCann, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Claire Dodd, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Rita Hills Chardonnay, which is sourced from four different vineyards within the appellation.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
Common among those individuals worthy of the exalted appellation is a temptation to vacate, in view of unacceptable compromise, the industry’s fraught financial space.
—Jeff Gibson, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Coming from one of the most famous French wine regions, the Bordeaux appellation is known for bold reds bursting with fruit, and is found in the world's finest wine cellars.
—Jaymi McCann, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Starting in 1984, Chris and Rich played with a revolving cast of band members under the band’s new moniker, Mr. Crowe’s Garden, named after the children’s book, Johnny Crow’s Garden.Charles Moss, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The Stronach Group, the owner of Santa Anita and operating under the moniker of 1/ST Racing, has a proposal to help alleviate the impact on Northern California horsemen.John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday evening released the names of Patricia Vergara, 14, of Madison, Wisconsin, and Erin West following forensic autopsies.Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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This revelation follows the release of Never Too Late, the theme song for his Disney+ documentary of the same name.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2024
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This is a true win-now move and pushes Dallas closer to being legitimate title contenders again this season.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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That particular match is an important game in hand Madrid has over FC Barcelona, which lost 2-1 to Atletico Madrid on Saturday and can fall behind in the title race by as many as five or six points in the near future.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 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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Although the bald eagle has historically been believed to be the country’s official bird, sitting on the front of the Great Seal since 1782, and despite some government departments touting its status as the national bird in official documents, the bird has never received the designation.Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Dec. 2024
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In 1975, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places, but the designation didn’t bring the terminal back to life—that would take another half a century of stops, starts and Ford largesse, just in the nick of time.Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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For example, if a butterfly like Papilio glaucus were transferred to a genus with a feminine name, the epithet glaucus (masculine form) would be adjusted to glauca to agree in gender with the new genus.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024
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The algorithms that underpin LLMs will by default offer up nasty or potentially harmful output such as racist epithets or instructions for building bombs, and fine-tuning from human testers is typically used to teach them behave better.Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
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My new nickname may as well be Passenger because Jennifer Lawrence’s pregnancy style is taking me on a journey.Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Just Askin': Many Kentuckians know who the Cards and Cats are, but the origins of these rival universities' nicknames may not be common knowledge.Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Appellation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appellation. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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