code name
Example Sentences
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The title of the invitation was "Send project Dawn email," an apparent reference to Amazon's code name for the job cuts.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
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
Again, the coded ringing of a bell, the whispering of my code name, Kingfisher.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
