namesake

Example Sentences

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Same-store sales declined 2% at American Eagle’s namesake brand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Yardeni Research namesake Ed Yardeni even has a name for the phenomenon: “In our view, today’s economy is not K-shaped but rather G-shaped,” he writes.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

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

The fieldwork also took the team to Joshua Tree National Park, which some research suggests will eventually become largely devoid of its namesake plant.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Mkentane portrayed his namesake, while I played John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela