namesake
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Increased volumes were boosted by 6% growth in the group’s premium segment, including its namesake brand, as well as by 12% growth in the low-to-no-alcohol category, a key focus for the brewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bon Jovi’s “Forever” tour is the first since the namesake frontman had surgery to repair a vocal cord injury in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Lores was brought in at PayPal after the company’s namesake checkout button, which lets customers pay on a range of websites, posted weak growth to end 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Totoro’s real launch into pop culture’s stratosphere came a year later, when NTV brought his namesake movie to a broader audience, exploding its fandom beyond Japan.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
There—a long-legged racing dog, a face of an old woman, a raccoon’s face, a frog, Omakayas’ namesake.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
From Shohei Ohtani to Clayton Kershaw to Freddie Freeman — all have inspired namesakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Woody and Christopher were the namesakes of Johnson’s surviving siblings, the former a prominent Republican fundraiser and owner of the New York Jets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
After the family moved to England in 2010, the boys would often meet their namesakes at Etihad Stadium.
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
Like their mythical namesakes, these pygmy squids are intimately connected with their natural environments in the emerald waters of Okinawa.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
When she had visited Chicago a couple of years ago, she had told Petra that all of her namesakes had grown up to be very beautiful and very lucky.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
