byword

Example Sentences

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Obviously set-plays have now become a byword for how teams can do that successfully, but that was the case before me and it is the same now I have retired.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

If Francis had a byword for his papacy, it was “mercy,” which he made the theme of a special jubilee year starting in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Nvidia has become the byword for AI winners.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

As a lawyer and law professor, however, Gould’s scholarship about institutionalized racism in employment relations became a byword.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin