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as in nickname
a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual
a soccer player whom everyone knows as "Mayhem," her adopted alias in the sports world that was created from her surname
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as in pseudonym
a fictitious or assumed name
the English author Eric Blair, better known under the alias of George Orwell
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Recent Examples of alias
Beware that the scammers will change aliases and tactics in order to evade detection, but the overall scam remains the same.
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Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Some use the names of real people, but many seem to be aliases for Firestone herself.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Prosecutors said Holmberg, who was still a senator at the time of the visits, used the alias Sean Evans.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Many artists began using aliases (and particularly ones that constantly changed) on Instagram, while others resisted censorship outright.
—Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
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Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Some use the names of real people, but many seem to be aliases for Firestone herself.
—Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Prosecutors said Holmberg, who was still a senator at the time of the visits, used the alias Sean Evans.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Many artists began using aliases (and particularly ones that constantly changed) on Instagram, while others resisted censorship outright.
—Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alias
Noun
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But few nicknames reach the height of the headless chicken monster.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The rocky bluffs make the waters particularly treacherous, earning the tip of Door County a wild nickname: Death’s Door.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
21 May 2025
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Given Lewis Hamilton has also dabbled in the music industry under the pseudonym XNDA and, in 2018, collaborated with Christina Aguilera, the question is whether the Ferrari teammates will compose a piece together?—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Soon, the two men came to see the pseudonym as almost taboo.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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The words were names, surnames, dates, cities and towns, sometimes with illustrations for reference, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
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And that’s without mentioning him taking on his team’s name as his surname.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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The men pulled Khan and his relatives from the truck and began beating them and shouting anti-Muslim epithets.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Police said an investigation revealed the man had been sitting in the plaza when the woman approached him and without provocation spat on him while yelling a racial epithet directed at Black people.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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Gravely lived up to that moniker Friday with a walk-off single for Santa Margarita in a 5-4 win over Los Alamitos in the CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinals at Santa Margarita High.—
Michael Huntley,
Oc Register,
23 May 2025
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That painting, Past Times (1997), appeared in Marshall’s traveling retrospective and was won by Combs, also known by the moniker Diddy, at Sotheby’s.—
Alex Greenberger for ARTNews,
Robb Report,
23 May 2025
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“Alias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alias. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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