labelled

Example Sentences

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Since the early 20th century, these have been labelled “toothpick grooves” and interpreted as signs of tool use or dental hygiene.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Supporters of reform say the current system disproportionately puts pressure on women, who often face being labelled pushy or difficult -- a stigma rarely attached to male stars.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Roughly half of drivers, mostly staff from the Aslef drivers' union, will turn up to work, having labelled the proposals "exactly the sort of deal every trade union should be trying to achieve".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Midway through “Marcel Duchamp”—the Museum of Modern Art’s sweeping, chronological survey of the artist it calls “one of the most important figures in modern culture”—you first encounter what Duchamp labelled as his “Readymades.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley