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alias

adverb as in in other circumstances

noun as in false name

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The Caracol report focuses on Diaz, a former guerrilla chief known by the alias Calarca who now leads a dissident armed group.

Some detained people offer up a wrong name or alias, and that would explain why he never showed up in Homeland Security records.

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Using a burner phone and an alias we joined several we were tipped off about.

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O'Connor, who went by the alias PlugwalkJoe, carried out the so-called "giveaway scam" with other young men and teenagers - breaking into Twitter's internal systems and taking over high profile accounts.

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Sánchez said that the camp belonged to members of a dissident group led by a commander known by the alias of Iván Mordisco.

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

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