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sobriquet

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a humorous epithet, assumed name, or nickname
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Summary: Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], August 6 (ANI): The Congress on Sunday lambasted the Narendra Modi led- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, describing sobriquet NaMo as "No Agriculture Mal-governance Only".
Congress takes dig at Modi, say NaMo is 'No agriculture Mal-governance'
Known by the sobriquet "El Licenciado" - "the graduate" - Lopez heads a Sinaloa Cartel faction at odds with two sons of former Sinaloa Cartel leader El Chapo Guzman.
El Chapo aide blamed for spiralling violence held
JURGEN KLOPP probably didn't know how apt his self-imposed sobriquet would be.
CLOD-KLOPPERS
Tous les jeunes participants beneficieront, tout au long du festival, de plusieurs conferences devant etre animees par des professionnels de cet art parmi lesquels l'humoriste tunisien Khaled Bouzid, connu sous le sobriquet d'El Fahem dans la serie TV a succes N'sibti Laaziza, qui fera egalement partie du jury appele a departager les concurrents.
Le monologue humoristique fait son show
Hence a left-handed pitcher facing the batter stood with the pitching arm to the south, inspiring the sobriquet southpaw.
One Direction
That was why he was unanimously given the sobriquet, "the Voice of Cricket", he added.
PCB condoles Benauds death
David acquired his sobriquet oinvincibleo through warring contests in Athens and Constantinople during the sixth century and is considered an Armenian philosopher by Armenian tradition.
David the Invincible Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge: Old Armenian Text With the Greek Original, an English Translation, Introduction and Notes
Guest included Jill Schlamm and Maggie (one of the couple's two daughters), CCR agents, landlords, managers and members of the REBNY ethics committee where Schlamm's contributions over the years earned him his sobriquet.
The nicest guy in real estate took over 100 agents, staff and friends on an adventure to celebrate the firm's 25th anniversary--and most of them didn't even realize
4) Walter Borenstein, glosses the comadrona's speech tag and sobriquet "Porreta" as "a colloquial expression that means 'stark naked'" (253, n.
Naturalism: the stimulus for Pardo Bazan's artistry with nicknames
TURNER CONTEMPORARY May * 25-September 15 * Curated by Brian Dillon "Curiosity" is a sobriquet that suggests the recondite and faintly declasse: qualities, no doubt, that recommend it to the arcana-loving, culturally omnivorous New York-based magazine Cabinet and to its UK editor Brian Dillon, who's curated this bursting Wunderkammer of an exhibition.
"Curiosity: art and the pleasures of knowing"
He has shown no remorse whatsoever for his revolting actions which earned him the sobriquet "every parent's worst nightmare".
Safer streets now Bryant is off them; [c]COMMENT
Fourteen years after the chilling attack, Imiela staged a series of rapes across the south of England on victims as young as 10 - earning him the sobriquet "the M25 rapist".
Plea as M25 rapist jailed again

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