byword

Example Sentences

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Disappointment, worryingly for Frank, is becoming the byword for Spurs and his tenure so far.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

Nvidia has become the byword for AI winners.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Vonster’s ghosting—a mere failure to appear where or when he said he would—would become a byword for all forms of social disappearance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 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 Northfarthing barley was so fine that the beer of 1420 malt was long remembered and became a byword.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien