nickname
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Rambunctious fans soon earned the team’s arena the nickname “Loud City.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
On Wall Street, this dynamic has its own nickname — the “Fed put.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The department sent a statement in response that appears to refer to the nine-time Pro Bowl selection’s nickname Weapon X.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Among his gym friends, the rising prices have even been given a nickname – "proteinflation".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
It hasn’t even been a full day of training and she’s already given Elsie a nickname.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Let’s hear it for author David Winder for putting together a list of the top 50 most interesting high school nicknames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
That is, the boisterous Boston guy who calls buddies only by their nicknames, lets everyone at the bar know about it when his team wins and would sacrifice their first born if Brady asked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
They have earned it the nicknames "Copper capital" and "World cobalt capital".
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Some among the rescue team and German media have given the whale nicknames: either Timmy, after the beach where he first stopped on the German coast in late March, or Hope.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Crewmen gave it a host of nicknames, among them “the Flying Brick,” “the Flying Boxcar,” and “the Constipated Lumberer,” a play on Consolidated Liberator.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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While stopped at a sandy ridge nicknamed "Chocolatal," Curiosity used its navigation cameras to photograph the surrounding landscape at two different times of day.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Fear of cellphone crime has pushed an estimated 30 percent of Brazilians -- about 65 million people -- to keep a cheap second phone, nicknamed a "robber's phone," according to the FBSP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The last prime minister to attempt a substantial overhaul of social care was Theresa May, whose 2017 plans unfurled when they were nicknamed the "dementia tax".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
That’s roughly 300 acres, encompassing the parking lots, the hillsides meeting the 110 Freeway, and 149 concrete planters nicknamed “martinis” for their glass-like shape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
More chatter about nicknamed moves that I’ve never heard of.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Sokol earned a reputation for being hard-driving and sometimes difficult, with some nicknaming him “The Great Young God,” a nod to both his intelligence and his ego.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The name Beaver Moon follows a longstanding tradition of nicknaming supermoons.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
Aside from nicknaming Haley “birdbrain,” Trump and his allies largely ignored her until recent weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
She began performing at 7, with the Oakland Tribune nicknaming her the “Mysterious Mite” and describing her stage presence as that of an “old trouper.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
At some point after the nicknaming, our Radar grew about six inches and started wearing contacts, so I suppose that 3.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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