namesake
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To be considered for an asteroid namesake, someone must nominate you, and in Nežič's case, two people put his name forward.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
It was inside that kitchen that the boxing champion filmed commercials promoting his namesake grill, the kitchen appliance that helped turn him into a household name beyond the world of sports.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Alice Cooper, 78, is lead singer of the namesake band that pioneered shock rock in the early 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At a time when other sitcoms occasionally tackled social issues in “very special” episodes and “The Cosby Show” hewed to its namesake star’s dedication to respectability politics, “A Different World” regularly confronted harder topics.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
It’s time he saw his nephew, his namesake.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
From Shohei Ohtani to Clayton Kershaw to Freddie Freeman — all have inspired namesakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
After the family moved to England in 2010, the boys would often meet their namesakes at Etihad Stadium.
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
Like their mythical namesakes, these pygmy squids are intimately connected with their natural environments in the emerald waters of Okinawa.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
He didn't miss her enough to become obsessed with her name, to date her namesakes over and over and over and over again.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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