nickname
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He says he "cannot run away" from his unusual nickname of Ezeudene, or the King of Vulture.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But Bryon Lake, chief transformation officer at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, told MarketWatch that the appeal of these products is much broader than that nickname suggests.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
During the campaign, he leaned heavily into his self-proclaimed nickname "The Tiger," sharing AI-generated images of himself as a fanged tiger and the only candidate willing to wage war on crime and insurgency.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The rapid rise earned him a reputation as a stock-picking wunderkind and the nickname “the Nostradamus of AI.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The news media came up with a nickname for the year 1985: "Year of the Spy."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
CEO nicknames often are born of job cuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They have earned it the nicknames "Copper capital" and "World cobalt capital".
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
A fan favorite for his witty wording and player nicknames, King turned his most famous catchphrase, “Gimme the Hotsauce,” into the name of his podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Some among the rescue team and German media have given the whale nicknames: either Timmy, after the beach where he first stopped on the German coast in late March, or Hope.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Unlike Louis Lépine, Alphonse Bertillon, his partner in the Mona Lisa investigation, had zero nicknames.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
It is a curious diagnosis from an administration whose senior officials have lately been swapping notes on a regimen nicknamed the “sauerkraut diet.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
And the valedictorian of an Ivy League university nicknamed “Nostradamus of AI” must be very smart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Milton-Jones played a pivotal role in the team’s back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002 and was nicknamed “D-Nasty” by former Sparks head coach Michael Cooper, a five-time NBA champion with the Showtime-era Lakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Von Hagens, an anatomist, lecturer and entrepreneur nicknamed "Dr Death," in the 1970s invented the plastination process, which involves removing water and fat from human and animal tissue and replacing them with chemical compounds.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Sokol earned a reputation for being hard-driving and sometimes difficult, with some nicknaming him “The Great Young God,” a nod to both his intelligence and his ego.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Paloma made light of it, nicknaming the tumour "Maria the Lung Mass", he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
The caption: “POV: Me on my way to HR yet again for nicknaming my co-worker ‘Tariff’ for costing the company more than they’re worth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
They had extinguished the main fire, which ignited smaller ones, nicknaming it “la Mère,” or mother, in French.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
At some point after the nicknaming, our Radar grew about six inches and started wearing contacts, so I suppose that 3.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
