nicknames
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Nicknames like the moniker given to Washington men’s basketball sophomore guard Koren Johnson are earned.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Nicknames for aerogel include "frozen smoke" and in pictures it can look like an ethereal half-gas, half-solid slice of matter.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2023
Nicknames usually aren’t too hard to figure out, although they tend to be so similar that a team can run into some trouble if there’s suddenly two of a kind.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2019
Nicknames: “El Chapo,” which is Spanish slang for “Shorty.”
From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2017
Nicknames like "Shrimp" and "Small Fry" haunted me through grade school.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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