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nom de guerre

noun as in pretend name

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Chi marketed his iCloud break-in "services" under the nom de guerre icloudripper4you.

But Steinitz had particularly stern words for Abbas, whom he referred to by his nom de guerre, Abu Mazen.

Even his name is a nom de guerre: Before launching the Temple, he went by the somewhat less evocative Doug Mesner.

It is headed by another shadowy figure using the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al Golani.

A former military man, Molina had served under Rios Montt, reportedly under the nom de guerre Major Tito.

A month-long siege there led to the death of top rebel commander, Youssef al-Jader, who used the nom de guerre Abu Furat.

It was thought and said that she was intellectual; it was suspected of her that she wrote under a nom de guerre.

The work was exploded, and he wrote an abusive treatise under the nom de guerre of Benedetto Aletino.

The irony of the King's choice of a nom de guerre seems to have escaped the historian.

Lynch succeeded a worthy named Hearne—a nom de guerre, his enemies averred, for the less euphonious one of Herring.

Amid roars of laughter (for this was at a public meeting in Dublin), O'Connell proceeded to justify the nom de guerre.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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