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last name

NOUN
family name
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On busy nights, I’d estimate the wait, scribble down a last name, party size and pager number in black pen, then hand over a pleasantly hefty plastic puck.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

At a demonstration in Vienna, Zehra, 37, who did not want to give her last name, said her two daughters, aged nine and 13, were "sad and angry" about the ban.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Just like when an Uber driver says to me, ‘Your last name is Patel?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But some command codes require only a last name, and that approach can bypass IRS detection, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Around two o’clock in the afternoon, John met up with his friends, the four Williams boys: Charles and Lawrence were brothers; Paul and Eugene just happened to have the same last name.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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