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Rollins similarly championed Black pride on "Airegin," another of his best-known pieces which is rigorously quick-paced -- and whose title is an anagram for Nigeria.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

The suit claims that Energy Transfer’s litigation violated Greenpeace International’s rights under the European Union’s 2024 anti-Slapp law, an anagram for strategic litigation against public participation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The pair borrowed the store’s name, an anagram of “nowhere,” from Samuel Butler’s 1872 satirical novel of the same name, which centered on a utopia where illness is considered a crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

The name turned out to be an anagram of Mr. Navarro’s surname and he described it as a “Hitchcockian writing device” that became an inside joke with himself.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

These are wild anagrams for a stain on satin, giving material heft to ephemeral language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

They found that subjects awakened from REM sleep solved 32% more anagrams than subjects who were interrupted during non-REM sleep.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

This is a direct reference to the author Alan Conway's penchant for making anagrams.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022

Recognizing that trait in each other, Seth and Kimberly bond over their parallel irregularities: his obsession with anagrams and her genetically scrambled codons.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

They were all masters of checkers and chess and bridge and cribbage and dominoes and anagrams and charades and Ping-Pong and billiards, as well.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Although Hanbury initially wanted each name to appear in a coherent anagrammed form first, he gave that up since they were onscreen too briefly to be read that way.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022

Although E.H.O'R. can be anagrammed as HERO, the character is doubtful of its gender.

From Time Magazine Archive

To pass the time, he anagrammed her sprawling name: Katherine Mutsensberger.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

He anagrammed “yrs forever” until he found one he liked: sorry fever.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Some of these anagrammed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus; to verify which, he spent his whole estate upon them.—P.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan

“It is intellectual,” Kagan said of the game, “it is mathematic, it is logic, it is strategy, it is word knowledge, it is anagramming and it’s luck.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022

CEILIDHS, the plural of a word meaning an Irish or Scottish party, isn’t exactly common, but it’s still a bit surprising Mackay missed it, given the best players’ extensive word knowledge and fast-twitch anagramming skills.

From Slate ● May 23, 2016

“We’ve done it as a labor of love,” César del Solar, who developed the anagramming website Aerolith, told me.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2014

For one thing, turning concepts into numbers was a sort of anagramming to which he was unaccustomed.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

And he was busy anagramming anything odd—any odd night, handy dog tin, doing thy DNA—when Colin did his DNA proud: he stumbled on a molehill and fell.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green