byword

Example Sentences

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The sports ministry on Friday said Wang Xiaoping, director the CFA’s Disciplinary Committee, and Huang Song, were both “suspected of serious violations” of law and discipline — the government’s usual bywords for graft.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The photo represented hope and change, the bywords of Obama’s campaign.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2022

Thus, sharing and cooperation are the bywords of wolf life.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

Mr. Gerhaher, a baritone, and Mr. Huber have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in a lieder repertory that they have made their own.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2018

Ay they that set these bywords a rolling had eyes and tongues, and tongues and eyes.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles