nickname
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Sonny and Chloe call each other “Bobo,” and in a nice, authentic touch we see he has written that nickname in ballpoint pen on the white sidewall of his sneaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Previous social media posts on Leading Edge's Facebook page report the instructor's nickname as the 'Flying Haggis', and show that he had been working with the flying school.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The uncertainty of not knowing if or where a project will be built has earned the nickname “phantom” data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Named as Bottega Veneta's creative director in 2021, he helped reinvent the Italian leather goods brand, earning him the nickname the "magician of Milan".
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
“How you been feeling, Neece-Neece?” he says, using the nickname he used to call me when we were in kindergarten.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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People get nicknames and his nickname is 'Chucker'.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The pilots, a team of champion drone pilots based in Austin, have “Top Gun”-style nicknames like “Amari” and “Proximo.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Historically, full Moons have been given nicknames to help people keep track of time and monitor the changing seasons.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
They have earned it the nicknames "Copper capital" and "World cobalt capital".
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Quite quickly I had accumulated enough nicknames to last a lifetime.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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The first — nicknamed El Cordonazo, or the Lash of St. Francis — hit Long Beach and San Pedro in September 1939.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Camp David property - set deep in Catoctin Mountain Park in Frederick County, Maryland - was first taken over as a retreat by President Franklin Roosevelt, who nicknamed it "Shangri-La".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
French intelligence services nicknamed Britain’s capital “Londonistan” decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
While stopped at a sandy ridge nicknamed "Chocolatal," Curiosity used its navigation cameras to photograph the surrounding landscape at two different times of day.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
I nicknamed her Screwzy, for the impractical, sidewinding course of her days.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Sokol earned a reputation for being hard-driving and sometimes difficult, with some nicknaming him “The Great Young God,” a nod to both his intelligence and his ego.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The name Beaver Moon follows a longstanding tradition of nicknaming supermoons.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
Aside from nicknaming Haley “birdbrain,” Trump and his allies largely ignored her until recent weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
As with many a critically reviled Broadway musical, those who loved it banded together, nicknaming themselves “Difanas.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2022
"Chachas—" she always called us that, from muchachas, girls, which is how come we had ended up nicknaming her a play echo of her name for us, Chucha.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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