eponym

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That’s one reason the U.S. benchmark was able to buck the global uptrend in bond yields last year, notes Jim Bianco, the eponym of Bianco Research Advisors.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

His work even generated the eponym “Boteroesque,” referring to enlarged figures like the ones he created.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Today, “gaslighting” functions as an eponym: “one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named,” Merriam-Webster says.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

While there are plenty of awful people who this rule would disqualify from being honored with a species eponym there is no shortage of excellent people or basic biological descriptions we could name species after.

From Scientific American • Nov. 8, 2019

It was the Megalosaurus, and the name was actually suggested to Buckland by his friend Dr. James Parkinson, the would-be radical and eponym for Parkinson’s disease.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson