eponymous
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The Santa Rosa fire also continued to burn on the eponymous island located within the Channel Islands National Park.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Daunt is a bibliophile and owns a small chain of eponymous independent bookstores in England.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
The following year he made Plant a PA system for Led Zeppelin to tour the United States and in 1970, Black Sabbath used Laney amplifiers during the recording of their eponymous debut.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
It’s hard to get stock market bears and bulls to agree on anything, but two prominent, eponymous economists finally found common ground this week.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
His most sustained attack on rhetoric comes in his dialogue Gorgias, where he imagines Socrates giving the eponymous rhetorician the third degree.*
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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