code name
Example Sentences
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Goren allegedly worked alongside Ozgur Altun, known by the code name "Abu Yasir Al Turki".
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
In others, they appeared to refer to the woman Summers was attracted to by a code name: “peril.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He said company lawyers had come up with a code name for the deal — Project USA — to help maintain a level of secrecy.
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
Operation Interflex is the code name given to the UK Armed Forces' training programme, which has been created to develop and prepare Ukrainian recruits to fight their country's Russian invaders.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024
She’s simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world’s first immortal human cells—her cells, cut from her cervix just months before she died.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
