byword
Example Sentences
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He added he was "sick and tired" of Betsi being "a byword for dysfunction and declining standards".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
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
