code name
Example Sentences
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In others, they appeared to refer to the woman Summers was attracted to by a code name: “peril.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 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 Israelis used the code name Philadelphi for the strip, while Egyptian officials call it Salah Al Din.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
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
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
