byword

Today, the term “Munich” still stands as a political and historical byword warning of the dangers of appeasement — of turning a blind eye to evil.

The word Bataclan has since become a byword in France for extreme Islamist attacks, in much the same way that 9/11 did in the US.

Vonster’s ghosting—a mere failure to appear where or when he said he would—would become a byword for all forms of social disappearance.

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

Still, the incident became a byword for forecaster error.