namesake
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Take poor Daffy Duck, living up to his namesake, spending his days painting watercolors in the pleasant confines of a cartoon asylum.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Opal, pretty as her namesake, is an intelligent woman with nothing to do and no man she can find her equal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Dick’s on Tuesday said sales at its namesake stores remained strong, with sports gear outside of sneakers helping deliver a 4.9% same-store sales gain, and also said it was confident in Foot Locker’s long-term potential.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Dragonfly is a survivor, just like its insect namesake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Even my namesake, Gran, used my preferred alias.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Other Dutch names survived, like Rensselaer and Peekskill, namesakes of Dutch settlers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
She is Cori Andersen, a teacher from Murrieta, and the two namesakes often text and occasionally visit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 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
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
