byword

Example Sentences

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In historical terms, Suez is a byword for the humiliation of a once-great but declining power.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Nvidia has become the byword for AI winners.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Since 1978, Archie Gemmill's name has been a byword for a great Scotland goal.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

As a lawyer and law professor, however, Gould’s scholarship about institutionalized racism in employment relations became a byword.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

The Northfarthing barley was so fine that the beer of 1420 malt was long remembered and became a byword.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien