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name

[neym] / neɪm /








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One achievement that nobody can take away from his legacy, however, is his hand in creating one of the most welcoming spaces in TV history: the Boston bar where everybody knows your name.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026

While it's the first time it's happened to Mayman, whose stage name is Kylie Kush, other drag performers here say it's a common occurrence.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026

"Something has to change because we can't keep living like this, we're dying of hunger," an elderly woman in Havana, who did not wish to give her name, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Wolfe had made a name with his full-throated New Journalism dispatches of the 1960s and ’70s, which adopted the techniques of fiction to describe a postwar world that seemed increasingly outlandish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Everyone calls me Lala, but my real name is Laveau.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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