namesake
Example Sentences
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The facility’s namesake harbored no illusions that his donation might one day turn the downtrodden Hoosiers into the country’s top team.
Craft beer drinkers know Pliny the Elder as the inspiration for his namesake double IPA.
From Los Angeles Times
There, she became the namesake of the Ai Project, a research programme into the "chimpanzee mind".
From BBC
Net sales jumped 9.2% compared with a year earlier to $1.47 billion, driven by strength across its namesake and Pink brands, as well as its beauty offerings, the company said.
The experience taught Boone that it was better to focus on the two Biscoff products the company knew best: its namesake cookies and a cookie butter spread the company started selling in 2008.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
