code name
Example Sentences
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"Everything was always under a code name," he said, adding: "You don't really 100% know you're working on something until you're actually there doing it."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Southwest began testing new boarding months before assigned seating was announced using the code name Project USA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The latter is salient because the name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA-funded project that Ellison worked on.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Geopolitically, things seem to have deteriorated, which created an interesting milieu for my spy — code name Kane — to inhabit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Searchlight was the Secret Service’s code name for President Nixon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
