code name
Example Sentences
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Goren allegedly worked alongside Ozgur Altun, known by the code name "Abu Yasir Al Turki".
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
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 code name for the massive operation to catch Miller, in the summer and fall of 1984, was “Whipworm,” a reference to an intestinal parasite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
Our scholar-diplomat, Magister Brangwain Spurge, code name: “The Weed,” has at this point been in the goblin capital of Tenebrion for eighteen hours.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
