code word
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From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
There’s a simple solution to this high-tech problem: a code word.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 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
That had become a code word between Branwell and me last summer when he had come back from a cruise of the Caribbean.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
