epithet
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Adrian E. Alvarez, who runs the group’s website, created a song titled “Spencer, Saca La Bassura,” a reference to Pratt’s epithet for the mayor from the Spanish word for trash.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
And Jackson asked, So he needs to use an epithet?
From Slate • May 4, 2026
The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Bangladesh's Prothom Alo newspaper, which said Zia had "earned the epithet of the 'uncompromising leader'", reported that Rahman and other family members were by her side at the time of her death.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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