code name
nounDefinition of code name
: a designation having a coded and usually secret meaning
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Other Words from code name
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Examples of code name in a Sentence
Every secret agent has a code name.
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News of the movie first leaked last November, when The Albuquerque Journal reported that a Bad movie was filming under the code name Greenbrier. — Dan Snierson, EW.com, "Watch the first teaser for the Breaking Bad movie," 24 Aug. 2019 According to a report by The Daily Mail UK, Lynch, 31, plays a new agent who takes over Bond’s iconic code name, with Daniel Craig‘s character living in Jamaica as a retiree after the events of 2015’s Spectre. — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, "Captain Marvel’s Lashana Lynch to Take Over as 007 from Daniel Craig's James Bond: Report," 15 July 2019 Typical for economic development deals, the project was cloaked in secrecy and had a code name: Project Shuttle. — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, "Insulation plant divides community in West Virginia," 9 June 2019 Then the boxer called and Jo bestowed another code name. — Greg Bishop, SI.com, "Immigrant Song," 30 July 2019 All the other marksman teams had taken up code names by then to confuse the Russians. — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, "Wolves of Karelia," 19 July 2019 These include a muscular new console currently under the code name Project Scarlett, which is expected to launch for next year’s holiday season. — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, "Cloud Gaming May Be Microsoft’s to Lose," 12 June 2019 The report, with its titillating redactions, copious footnotes, mind-numbing legal jargon and endlessly intricate details, dates and code names, is a cipher for fraught political times. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, "How the Mueller report became a live-theater summer sensation," 20 July 2019 In the late 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union deployed the new SS-20 (NATO code name: Sabre). — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "As a Key Arms-Control Treaty Is Set to Die, Russia Threatens to Target U.S. with New Nukes," 20 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'code name.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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