byword

Example Sentences

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Nvidia has become the byword for AI winners.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

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

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin