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- adjective having a single-word name.
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Examples
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Those who have seen the autobiographical play "Passing Strange" or Spike Lee 's film version know that the mononymous singer-songwriter-playwright-performer Stew isn't afraid of a little tension or confrontation.
Analyzing Stew Tad Hendrickson 2012
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Executive producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, with the help of the Language Creation Society's mononymous Sai, selected David J. Peterson to create and expand the Dothraki language, which now stands at 2,763 words at the last count, for the HBO series.
Game of Thrones: How to Speak (and Curse!) Like the Dothraki 2011
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Lincoln is such a well-known figure in America that a writer can assume his readers will recognize the mononymous reference.
Justice and the 'al Qaeda 7' James Taranto 2010
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Lincoln is such a well-known figure in America that a writer can assume his readers will recognize the mononymous reference.
Justice and the 'al Qaeda 7' James Taranto 2010
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A YouTube video has been making the rounds among conservative anti-immigrant types showing the mononymous Colombian songstress Shakira, in an interview on CNN, weighing in on Arizona's new law establishing state jurisdiction over immigration violations.
The Santa Cruz Riot 2010
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Brown and the mononymous Rihanna are a rhythm-and-blues musician and a pop star, respectively, and they used to be boyfriend and girlfriend, until he pleaded guilty to assaulting her.
There's a What On? 2009
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It seems as though Kirchner and his mononymous colleague took the worst of Harry Kupfer's 1988 production and melded with the best theoretical aspects of Wieland Wagner's Neu Bayreuth style.
Alfred Kirchner's Götterdämmerung Patrick J. Smith 2007
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It seems as though Kirchner and his mononymous colleague took the worst of Harry Kupfer's 1988 production and melded with the best theoretical aspects of Wieland Wagner's Neu Bayreuth style.
Archive 2007-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007
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New York magazine in 1996, and put in time at mononymous financial books like
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New York magazine in 1996, and put in time at mononymous financial books like
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When Claire or Brad (the hosts are so ubiquitous to their fans as to be mononymous) shows their audience how to make a recipe, their instructions feel like they’re coming from a friend, not a teacher.
Foodie Culture as We Know It Is Over Hannah Giorgis 2020
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