epithet
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Adrian E. Alvarez, who runs the group’s website, created a song titled “Spencer, Saca La Bassura,” a reference to Pratt’s epithet for the mayor from the Spanish word for trash.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
And Jackson asked, So he needs to use an epithet?
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Still, its control of the industry—and Americans’ daily lives—earned AT&T the epithet “Ma Bell.”
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
We can only guess how the Romans came to call her Dido; Ms. MacDonald supposes it was an epithet meaning “the wanderer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
It was not an unfair epithet, though meant unkindly.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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The bean counters expect their doctors, who yank people back from the brink of death and care for ailing folks screaming epithets at them, to do it all with a smile.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
In an interview with the American Patriots of Latino Heritage, Cervantes said he directed a couple of choice epithets at the officer and declared, “I’ll prove you wrong,” before running out the door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
These labels salt the book on almost every page, and always as epithets.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023
The paucity of theatrical flourishes speaks volumes: Or rather, it is Henrik Ibsen’s words, in a faithful “new version” by Amy Herzog that adds a few choice epithets, that are given overarching priority.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
However, Areida was laughing, which made it seem the worst of epithets.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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