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“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed wrote on Sept. 11, 2021.
From Salon β Sep. 2, 2026
There was no such name check for the CIA director who had made a surprise visit to Moscow last week.
From BBC β Sep. 2, 2026
Planters said it has hired Martin, the agency that made the Geico Gecko a household name, to begin “the next chapter for Mr. Peanut.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
“I chose the name Bunga Karsa because I wanted my work to represent flowers created with intention — where every piece carries meaning, care and purpose.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
On her chest was a large, beaded tag with her name, Joyce.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Google Maps changed it for U.S. users; Canadians kept Lake Ontario, while users elsewhere saw both names.
From Salon β Sep. 2, 2026
“This is brilliant,” said Joe Sever, 36, a medical sales representative who brought his son and twin daughters, who were wearing matching denim jackets with their names bedazzled on the backs.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
He told BBC Verify that the figures recorded by the health ministry are "testable" because it publishes names, ages and ID numbers of the dead.
From BBC β Sep. 2, 2026
On the poster, the multi-genre, multigenerational lineup was organized not by popularity, but by the alphabetical order of artists’ names: among them Bikini Kill, Chappell Roan, Doechii and Garbage.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 1, 2026
He scanned the room, mouthing our names as he counted to make sure that we were all present.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
While the trio have been named in the Test squad, they may be rotated in favour of Baker, Essex pace bowler Sam Cook and Derbyshire spinner Shoaib Bashir.
From BBC β Sep. 2, 2026
In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
The retreat boasts secluded white sand, dunes, a palm-lined lagoon and multiple beaches, several of which Depp named in honor of people close to him, including his children and former partner Vanessa Paradis.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 1, 2026
The big problem is the Segal issue—which is named for a cousin of mine.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 1, 2026
Mom only let us keep him because Calvin said he’d already named him.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Chief among them is the practice of naming each newborn by pointing to arandom word in the family dictionary.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
In Europe, there are five storm naming groups created from the meteorological agencies based in a similar geographic location.
From BBC β Sep. 1, 2026
The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes is a job for the World Meteorological Organization, which rotates them out every six years and retires them after a given storm causes too much destruction.
From Salon β Aug. 28, 2026
"Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario -- then, now and always."
From Barron's β Aug. 27, 2026
“We agreed we’d stick with the new naming convention in front of clients.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
