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Recent Examples of middle name
Peter, Paul and Mary — Stookey performed under his more biblical middle name — hit America’s cultural sweet spot in the early 1960s.
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Peak Popularity: The baby's middle name has been more popular, appearing on the top baby girl names list in most years between 1908 to 1996.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
RuPaul loves that her middle name is Butthole, so that’s good for her.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By Alyssa Hardy December 21, 2024 Lindy McDonough started her brand, Lindquist (the full version of her Swedish middle name), with a rule about glue.
—Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Peak Popularity: The baby's middle name has been more popular, appearing on the top baby girl names list in most years between 1908 to 1996.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
RuPaul loves that her middle name is Butthole, so that’s good for her.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
By Alyssa Hardy December 21, 2024 Lindy McDonough started her brand, Lindquist (the full version of her Swedish middle name), with a rule about glue.
—Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle name
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The final stage of the attack asks the user to provide details to their payment card as well as date of birth, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, and driver's license number.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
7 Nov. 2024
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Christina has also filed to legally retake her maiden name.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
16 July 2024
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Posada recently got a tattoo featuring his family name in script and wrapped in a bed of olive leaves.—
Kevin J. Farmer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Next is the Aorus Elite 16, another laptop with a family name derived from Gigabyte’s motherboard offerings.—
& Matthew Buzzi,
PCMAG,
12 Jan. 2025
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For privacy reasons, Patricia asked ABC News to be referred by her first name only.—
Stephanie Mendez,
ABC News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Fear of the Taliban is only one of the reasons the first names of his parents and siblings are not in this article.—
Jazzmin Jiwa,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Until last year, John Henry Newman, as he is known by his baptismal name, was studying to become a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Yangon.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2022
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She was given the name Sister Seraphia and later returned to her baptismal name, Carol Estelle.—
Jacques Kelly,
baltimoresun.com,
22 May 2021
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In 1967, only about 600 buyers checked the Z28 option box (there was no slash included in the Z28 nomenclature for the first year), but 1968 and 1969 saw about 7,200 and 20,300 Z/28s built, respectively.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
27 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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“Middle name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20name. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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