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Example sentences for: byword

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A country whose name had once been a byword for economic prowess instead became a symbol of faded glory.
The Times of London, once a byword for dignity, has a regular feature called "Centre of Attention" about the hot topic of the day.
I have no doubt that editorial freedom will be the byword."
Of course, the buggy whip is rare enough today to be a byword for anything hopelessly outmoded -- the buggy-whip industry being singled out with a particular chuckle -- and horse-and-buggy days has become the byword for a whole lost era.