code word
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Failures were uncovered by the BBC in 2024 when secret filming found that in more than half of the London venues they visited, staff failed to respond to the code word.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Dillehay held herself out as an example of a woman who failed; she said she had dated men who were “flippant,” which appears to be her code word for fun.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
She said it was false “that an executive planted a code word to catch” Bisignano reading the email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Do you have a code word for your family, and have you ever had to use it?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
I’d rather go to a machine which knows me by some code word but on whose operating programs a team of software writers has painstakingly worked for months.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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