code name

Example Sentences

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Southwest began testing new boarding months before assigned seating was announced using the code name Project USA.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The latter is salient because the name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA-funded project that Ellison worked on.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

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

“We will continue to keep” a protected person whose code name was blacked out in the document but was clearly Mr. Biden “in our sight but must be creative to ensure our own personal safety.”

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Our job was not in itself complicated: Answer the line, match the code name to a number, insert the right plug into the right jack, connect the telephone call.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse