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
The code name for the massive operation to catch Miller, in the summer and fall of 1984, was “Whipworm,” a reference to an intestinal parasite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
Our scholar-diplomat, Magister Brangwain Spurge, code name: “The Weed,” has at this point been in the goblin capital of Tenebrion for eighteen hours.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
