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Namesakes meaning
plural of namesake
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Brothers Corporal Edley and Private James Simmonds were killed minutes apart in Papua New Guinea, and are the namesakes of the DRA's Operation Simmonds.
Car buyers in Canada tended to prefer smaller and more economical cars than their American cousins, and Canadian versions of Dodges and Pontiacs were smaller than their American namesakes.
I wanted our characters to be able to embody their namesakes at the end of the film.
He has several more namesakes at the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin: the Layton F. Rikkers Surgery Education Retreat, Layton F. Rikkers Chair in Surgical Leadership, and Layton F. Rikkers Surgical Society, an alumni group.
Together with an award-winning beverage developer, Avnish turned his cocktail crafting passion into a mission to reinvent their alcohol-free namesakes, so anyone choosing to moderate or abstain can enjoy without compromise.
Trustee Michael Janz, who brought forward the motion, said that while changing the schools’ names is a symbolic move, symbolism is powerful and it’s important to consider who is being celebrated and venerated as namesakes for schools.
Likewise, schools such as the State University of New York at New Paltz are reexamining the namesakes of their facilities and contemplating cutting any ties with those that may have owned slaves or contributed to slavery’s continued existence.
Aside from sticking loosely to the theme of Belldandy representing the present, Urd the past and Skuld the future, they are only loosely related to their mythic namesakes in this media.
Namesakes The islands of New Zealand were discovered for the western world by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman in 1642, although he did not land in New Zealand.
The New York Giants played side-by-side with their baseball namesakes from the time they entered the National Football League in 1925, until crossing over to Yankee Stadium in 1956.
This chapel holds the two monumental tombs of Lorenzo and Giulano's less known namesakes, Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, and Giuliano, Duke of Nemours.