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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

After the health department shut it down, the couple rented a small storefront nearby and named it Erewhon, an anagram of “nowhere.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

Emily played around with rearranging the letters, thinking maybe it was an anagram.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The theme-and-variations format is enchanting, allowing Sondheim, the great puzzler, to treat songs almost as anagrams.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

This season was particularly intense with anagrams hidden in board games and other places.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

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

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

“Maybe that’s why she dumped you. Always anagramming, never listening.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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