code name
Example Sentences
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They referred to the possibility of their characters getting a call from Sweden by a code name: ABBA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
Goren allegedly worked alongside Ozgur Altun, known by the code name "Abu Yasir Al Turki".
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
Operation Interflex is the code name given to the UK Armed Forces' training programme, which has been created to develop and prepare Ukrainian recruits to fight their country's Russian invaders.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024
The code name Sotheby’s used for a transaction involving another painting Rybolovlev bought from Bouvier — “Water Serpents II,” by Gustav Klimt — was “Cottonmouth,” a kind of snake.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
We’d decided to use this as the moped’s official code name in case anyone overheard us talking about it.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
