byword

Example Sentences

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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

St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Against them were arrayed the Whigs, whose combination of bad luck and ineptitude has made them a byword for political failure.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 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