code name
Example Sentences
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In others, they appeared to refer to the woman Summers was attracted to by a code name: “peril.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The latter is salient because the name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA-funded project that Ellison worked on.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
Geopolitically, things seem to have deteriorated, which created an interesting milieu for my spy — code name Kane — to inhabit.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
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
His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
