namesake
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The strength of Rhode, the skincare and cosmetics brand founded by Hailey Bieber, is helping to offset sluggish sales for e.l.f.’s namesake brand, which slipped in the latest quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is the franchise’s longest since 1946, a time when Johnny Pesky was the team’s starting shortstop and not yet the namesake of Fenway Park’s right-field foul pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
On the North American Tour, we have “Gillian,” namesake of Lynne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Johnny’s father and namesake, the son of an Irish emigree who had become a Union Cavalryman, had spent his young adulthood rambling across the western Canadian wilderness in search of gold.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Other Dutch names survived, like Rensselaer and Peekskill, namesakes of Dutch settlers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
From Shohei Ohtani to Clayton Kershaw to Freddie Freeman — all have inspired namesakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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
I also wish I could have included the proto-punk group the Monks, who often dressed like their namesakes, but the band’s great 1966 album “Black Monk Time” isn’t available on any streaming platforms.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
He didn't miss her enough to become obsessed with her name, to date her namesakes over and over and over and over again.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
