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Usage for sobriquet


When Dario Franchitti was christened "The Bathgate Bullet" in the mid-1990s, the sobriquet signified general surprise in West Lothian that a motoring sensation had emerged from a region which was more renowned for football and rock ...

BANGALORE: Greening and earning back the sobriquet `Land of Sandalwood' is the main focus of Karnataka's new forest policy. That's quite a task given that the National Forest Policy mandates 33% of a state's geographical area has to be under forest and ...

Just one thing: in French, the name of the car – pronounced "day-ess-kat" sounds almost identical to DSK – "day-ess-ka" – the sobriquet by which Dominique Strauss-Kahn is commonly known. In the context of the former IMF managing director's current ...

The sun was strong and the breeze gentle, which made it a perfect combination for cycling by these fields that give the islet its sobriquet. Our first stop was what the islanders call the Natural Rock or Howrah Bridge. To get to this spectacular spot, ...

“To the great surprise of those of us who have little time for the monarchy, she walked that line with amazing grace,” he said. If the label for the royal wedding was “fairy tale,” then the sobriquet for the visit to Ireland was “new chapter.”


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