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Noun
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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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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
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Pharmaceutical companies often employ strategies to extend patents for brand name drugs and delay competition from generics.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Elemis brand name will also be printed onto the Aston Martin Aramco sporting cars, joining brands such as Boss and Oakley.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
WWD,
12 Feb. 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
Noun
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Encompassing two weekends, the event’s name is something of a misnomer.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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All this makes the film’s title seem a double misnomer.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Dec. 2024
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The show was created and produced by Banijay Benelux label TwentyTwo.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Henry Stone, who started TK Records, noticed that there was a rap thing coming up and that Miami was doing the Miami bass thing, Uncle Luke [of 2 Live Crew] was already there [at the label].—
Kyle Eustice,
SPIN,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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