byword
Example Sentences
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Disappointment, worryingly for Frank, is becoming the byword for Spurs and his tenure so far.
From BBC
If Francis had a byword for his papacy, it was “mercy,” which he made the theme of a special jubilee year starting in 2015.
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.
From BBC
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.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
