eponym

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That’s one reason the U.S. benchmark was able to buck the global uptrend in bond yields last year, notes Jim Bianco, the eponym of Bianco Research Advisors.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

And in 2020 the AOS removed an eponym that honored a Confederate general and replaced it with the common species name Thick-billed Longspur.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023

His work even generated the eponym “Boteroesque,” referring to enlarged figures like the ones he created.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

An eponym was once considered medicine’s highest honor.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

It was the Megalosaurus, and the name was actually suggested to Buckland by his friend Dr. James Parkinson, the would-be radical and eponym for Parkinson’s disease.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson