namesake

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Long before the modern GPU, computer-science legends like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon — the namesake of Anthropic’s large language model — used chess to model human logic and cognition.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

But Venters said that the brand’s namesake designer is still dead-set on the company remaining a stalwart British brand-not straying too far from its cultural origin.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

A tiny parasitic wasp - the Attenboroughnculus tau - was also named in his honour, although it is far from his first fauna namesake.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

He took his oath with his hand on a book of poems by the city’s namesake, Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, that belonged to the council’s sole remaining white person, Republican Cathy Warner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

That, Dad told us, would make everyone happy except his mom, who hated the name Ruth and wanted the baby called Erma, and Mom’s mom, who would hate sharing her namesake with Dad’s mom.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls