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Mom's favorite byword is “You can get more flies with honey than with vinegar”.
nationally, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive has become a byword for luxury retailing
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But economic depression set in after World War II, and by the 1980s Elefsina had become a byword for environmental damage and urban blight.
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Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
The Biden administration’s support of worker rights and union organizing has become a byword.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
But most of the women shunned their former friend, viewing his actions as uncouth in an era when discretion was the byword of elite society.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
The Ukrainian suburb of Bucha has also become a byword for war crimes, with reports of indiscriminate shelling and executions highlighting the atrocities of Russian occupation.
—Molly Stazicker, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
As a result of heavy-handed and improvident state intervention in the economy for the better part of a century, Argentina has become a byword for economic decline.
—The Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
The idea of evictions and lack of access to housing is particularly resonant, Mr. Doyle said, because of Ireland’s centuries under British rule, during which the callous absentee landlord became a byword for oppression.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
Russia has physically erased it from the face of the Earth and made its name a byword for destruction, for street battles of a ferocity hardly seen since World War II.
—Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
How did a genre rooted in astonishment, weirdness, and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
The Biden administration’s support of worker rights and union organizing has become a byword.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
But most of the women shunned their former friend, viewing his actions as uncouth in an era when discretion was the byword of elite society.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
The Ukrainian suburb of Bucha has also become a byword for war crimes, with reports of indiscriminate shelling and executions highlighting the atrocities of Russian occupation.
—Molly Stazicker, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
As a result of heavy-handed and improvident state intervention in the economy for the better part of a century, Argentina has become a byword for economic decline.
—The Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
The idea of evictions and lack of access to housing is particularly resonant, Mr. Doyle said, because of Ireland’s centuries under British rule, during which the callous absentee landlord became a byword for oppression.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
Russia has physically erased it from the face of the Earth and made its name a byword for destruction, for street battles of a ferocity hardly seen since World War II.
—Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
How did a genre rooted in astonishment, weirdness, and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
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“Byword.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byword. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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