namesake

Example Sentences

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The LV monogram was designed in 1896 by Georges Vuitton, the offspring of the brand’s namesake founder.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The center was also designing and testing mock-ups of a lunar lander, which Armstrong — now the center’s namesake — later used to practice landing on the moon while still here on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Woods has often been lauded for his comebacks from injury which have fed his remarkable reputation, but Woodland has achieved his with a grace that has always seemed beyond his near namesake.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Grace and Faith must work together, using their namesake virtues to outsmart the scoundrels and stay alive, and to say it’s far less effective than it was seven years ago is an understatement.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Thinking of the town made me think, too, of its namesake.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer