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code name

[kohd naym] / ˈkoʊd ˌneɪm /


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His code name was Lawful, and Ted did want to prove that he couldn’t be defeated.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

They referred to the possibility of their characters getting a call from Sweden by a code name: ABBA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

The latter is salient because the name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA-funded project that Ellison worked on.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

Geopolitically, things seem to have deteriorated, which created an interesting milieu for my spy — code name Kane — to inhabit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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