pseudonym
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If the film were as goofy as the killer’s pseudonym, it might be worth the two painful hours it takes to muster through this bloodless procedural.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
He still uses the pseudonym he went by for years during the insurgency, but he told us his real name is Tahir Shah Seddiqi - revealing it publicly for the first time.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
She was 14 when she met 18-year-old “Sam,” a pseudonym Hackney assigns him in the memoir.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Factually, it’s baloney, although “Tony” does restore the restaurant’s actual name — the Flagship — from Bourdain’s Dreadnaught, the pseudonym he gave it before he ever imagined future fans following him around the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In 1798, writing under a pseudonym, Malthus had published an incendiary paper—An Essay on the Principle of Population—in which he had argued that the human population was in constant struggle with its limited resource pool.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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While there were established columnists like Walter Winchell, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, most articles in these magazines either went unbylined or were written under pseudonyms.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Four women, who use the pseudonyms Isabella, Justine, Elizabeth and Margo and founded the "No One Above" advocacy group, have now been recognised as victims of human trafficking.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Because Ms. Schumer protected her interviewees’ identities with pseudonyms, we can’t know how these baby boomers did over the years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
With ultra-low budgets, many of the productions are non-union, prompting some writers and actors to work under pseudonyms to avoid facing sanctions from their unions, said several people who work on the shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Unable to get work there, he moved to England, where he wrote screenplays under pseudonyms.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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