last name
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On busy nights, I’d estimate the wait, scribble down a last name, party size and pager number in black pen, then hand over a pleasantly hefty plastic puck.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
They had one job: Make Arch Manning live up to his last name and join football royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
On Thursday morning, Ihor M. -- whose last name has been withheld under Polish privacy law -- entered the Benedictine abbey in Jaroslaw, in southeastern Poland.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
But there are optimists too, such as a man who told us his last name was Zhang, standing alongside potato pickers in a field near the data centres.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“How about your last name? Carter, is it? How’d you get that?”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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