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As a lawyer and law professor, however, Gould’s scholarship about institutionalized racism in employment relations became a byword.

Still, the incident became a byword for forecaster error.

Against them were arrayed the Whigs, whose combination of bad luck and ineptitude has made them a byword for political failure.

New-year celebrations have become a byword for antisocial behaviour in many Dutch cities and public support for a ban has gradually changed the minds of politicians too.

Morecambe Bay became a byword for poor maternity care and the trust promised to enact all 18 recommendations from the Kirkup review.