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last name

noun as in family name

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Many Colored people took the last name Freeman to reflect their newly freed status in the world.

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She requested The Times not share his name or her last name for fear of retribution.

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Sarah, a Utah Interior Department employee who asked her last name not be used, was among them.

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He went by his maternal grandmother’s last name professionally, as did two of his three brothers who all worked in broadcast journalism.

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Anomaly, who changed his last name as a college student, is a former professor of political science at Duke University.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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