code word

Example Sentences

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There’s a simple solution to this high-tech problem: a code word.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

And when you talk about productivity, it’s almost like a code word for cost-cutting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

North wants to remind parents and teachers that every generation has their secret code word.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

A “clean CR”—a little code word they use for these kinds of bills—is one sentence.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2025

I’d rather go to a machine which knows me by some code word but on whose operating programs a team of software writers has painstakingly worked for months.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos