byword
Example Sentences
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Once tourist fodder, the musical has remained a byword for hokey commercialism.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
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
St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 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
