byword
Example Sentences
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A nation that can be used as a byword for impressive efficiency?
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Keynes, whose name is a byword for interventionist policies, changed the way economists understood the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Once tourist fodder, the musical has remained a byword for hokey commercialism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“Goldilocks” was the byword for the bull market of the past few years, but now the three bears—oil, gold, and the Fed—are on the prowl, and there may be no happy ending.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
The Northfarthing barley was so fine that the beer of 1420 malt was long remembered and became a byword.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
