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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 display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
17 Dec. 2024
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Its residential smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, under the trade names Universal and USI Electric, are manufactured in and imported from China.—
Lorraine Mirabella,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Nov. 2024
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Russ Davis Wholesale announced a recall of various salads and wraps on December 1, sold under brand names Crazy Fresh, Quick & Easy and Kowalski's Markets, that used cucumbers supplied by Baloian Farms.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
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The majority were also treated with the antiviral oseltamivir, also known by the brand name Tamiflu, which may have helped to speed their recovery.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 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 this sparkling novel, Cate Kay is just that: the nom de plume of a bestselling author who doesn't really exist, after a tragedy in her youth sent her on the run under a succession of different identities.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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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
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Thought to have been brought to North America by European settlers, the name may be a bit of a misnomer.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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Suggesting the 1995-96 Premier League campaign belonged to Tony Yeboah (and not Alan Shearer — sorry, Alan) might be a misnomer but, for a couple of glorious months as late summer turned towards autumn in 1995, Yeboah really did feel to be the only show in town.—
The Athletic UK Football Writers,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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Another post caught Martin’s attention in 2021, which led to Canal getting signed to the same label as Coldplay.—
Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
21 Jan. 2025
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The singer was spotted in a polka dot dress from the label, which is known for offering upscale and work-appropriate womenswear in black, white, and sometimes gray.—
Robyn Merrett,
StyleCaster,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Trivial name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial%20name. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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