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She is thought to be living under an alias in Los Angeles.
alias = alternative name
- For security, Winston Churchill usually traveled using the alias, Colonel Warden.
- Halliday was alluding to a famous '70s hacker named John Draper, better known by the alias Captain Crunch. (source)
- He chose an alias, Saburo Ohta, a common name unlikely to attract notice or dwell in anyone's memory. (source)
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...let us bow our heads in silent prayer for our benefactor Sam Westing, alias Sandy the doorman.
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alias = an alternative name
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I have written to the Minister for Magic and am expecting him to give Stubby, alias—Sirius, a full pardon any day now.
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alias = alternative name
- Later, not to be outdone, the Brigham would create a special division and another alias for pih, the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities. (source)
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I looked at my parents' aliases and their birthdays, which variants I knew.
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aliases = alternative names
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Alias Carlos.
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alias = alternative name
- Paul Larkin bought it under an alias. (source)
- Pachuco alias Snowboots was still going at it in the living room. (source)
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- For some reason he must live and act under an alias. (source)
- 'Ratchett,' as you suspected, was merely an alias. (source)
- It is always awkward doing business with an alias. (source)
- He has died and come alive again thirteen times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith, Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin—a new alias every time he turns up. (source)
- ...and so your sister's fate is now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov. (source)
- This dreadful threat had the desired effect, and through the two remaining fields the three pair of small legs trotted on without any serious interruption, notwithstanding a small pond full of tadpoles, alias "bullheads," which the lads looked at wistfully. (source)
- "Send the warrant round to me, and I'll put in an alias," cried Hiram, from behind his cover. (source)
- Anyhow, big mistake, we stop and wait for Tony D., alias the bad-news Blade.† (source)
- It said a good criminal chooses a alias that's kind of close to their own name.† (source)
- You'll compete under an alias.† (source)
- So in Snowman's reruns of the story, Crake is never Glenn, and never Glenn-alias-Crake or Crake / Glenn, or Glenn, later Crake.† (source)
- He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent.† (source)
- He had not had much to write in my file for a long time, but a few items had joined the log of old evidence in the last few months: the name of another potential victim, Sophie Cichetti, the name of her son, and an alias of George Harvey's.† (source)
- For the second time in her quiet life, Patria Mercedes (alias Mariposa #3) shouted out, "Amen to the revolution!"† (source)
- There is far too much paperwork involved in owning a car, paperwork that could be traced directly to us, no matter how many aliases we used.† (source)
- Bertillon believed that each man's measurements were unique and thus could be used to penetrate the aliases that criminals deployed in moving from city to city.† (source)
- Powell operated under several aliases — Payne, Wood, and Hall.† (source)
- Alias: the Sculptor† (source)
- Drive past the scene several times, park some distance from the scene, go back on foot, locate Mr. Gray under his real name or an alias, shoot him three times in the viscera for maximum pain, clear the weapon of prints, place the weapon in the victim's staticky hand, find a crayon or lipstick tube and scrawl a cryptic suicide note on the full-length mirror, take the victim's supply of Dylar tablets, slip back to the car, proceed to the expressway entrance, head east toward Blacksmith, get off at the old river road, park Stover's car in Old Man Treadwell's garage, shut the garage door, walk home in the rain and the fog.† (source)
- Similarly, I felt it was proper to offer one alias in the book's first half.† (source)
- Two others identified as likely participants were a man called Antibbe, who also used many other aliases, familiar to authorities in the Middle East and Europe as a mercenary, and a black named Stroll, known primarily as a technician, expert with explosives, machinery, etc. There was one other, whose identity was not known to us at that time.† (source)
- He told me not to look for the name, because in all probability Throw-Up had used an alias.† (source)
- At some point, and soon, Jake would inform Judge Atlee that Ancil Hubbard had been located, and verified, though the verification was shaky because the subject might change his mind at any moment and adopt another alias.† (source)
- But he warned that they might be dealing with a particularly cunning criminal who operated under an alias.† (source)
- He keeps the purchase a secret from Marina by having the gun sent to his P.O. box and even uses the alias of "A. J. Hidell."† (source)
- And if you were smart enough to use an alias, you'd have used one that was basic, that was familiar.† (source)
- And that's how the second Mrs. Blakeslee, alias Love Simpson, declared war on the family.† (source)
- After she gave Will several aliases, he went over to the kids who were outside on the balcony.† (source)
- Eduardo used his own name, but John wants me to have an alias.† (source)
- Then he dismissed all charges against Hooch Palmer, alias Ulysses Brock.† (source)
- All I knew was the alias.† (source)
- "Anthony Giunghierrace," replied ominous Di Presso, "alias Tony Jaguar."† (source)
- My full name, avatar name, student alias (Wade3), date of birth, Social Security number, and home address. (source)
- His real name was listed as "Henry Swanson," but that was an alias used by Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China, so I knew it must be a fake. (source)
- No stone or tomb marks the grave of Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes.† (source)
- Except I couldn't figure out who was a criminal here and why anybody needed a alias.† (source)
- Well, at least he was using the alias all over and not just with me and his family in Flint.† (source)
- Zalachenko, alias Karl Axel Bodin, was given a liquid lunch.† (source)
- She was twelve and had threatened to blow Zalachenko's identity, his alias, his whole cover.† (source)
- It was the alias of an ax murderer the authorities had been hunting for months!† (source)
- Was the alias of the agent always the same?† (source)
- In the same way I used a different alias and of course a different passport for each trip.† (source)
- Did the Copenhagen or Helsinki banks ever write to you in London—to your alias, I mean?† (source)
- Beneath the double portrait is written, in copperplate: Grace Marks, alias Mary Whitney James McDermott.† (source)
- Grace Marks, Alias Mary Whitney.† (source)
- Hearing how little tiny Freak is dissing the fearsome Tony D., alias Blade, I can't help it, I laugh out loud.† (source)
- Minnie was to refer to him in public as Henry Howard Holmes, an alias, he explained, that he had adopted for business reasons.† (source)
- Whether her appetite for murder has ever strongly asserted itself in the interval is not known, as she probably guards her identity by more than one alias.† (source)
- That name had alias writ all over it!† (source)
- The suspect was a physician whose given name was Mudgett but was known more commonly by the alias H. H. Holmes.† (source)
- When Holmes met Minnie, he was traveling on business under the alias Henry Gordon and found himself invited to a gathering at the home of one of Boston's leading families.† (source)
- That Holmes would use an alias seemed beyond doubt, so Geyer brought along his photographs, even a depiction of the children's distinctive "flat-top" trunk.† (source)
- The judge ruled that Graham could present only evidence tied directly to the Pitezel murder and thus eliminated from the historical record a rich seam of detail on the murders of Dr. Herman W. Mudgett, alias Holmes.† (source)
- City directories also listed at Holmes's address the office of a doctor named Henry D. Mann, possibly a Holmes alias, and the headquarters of the Warner Glass Bending Company, which Holmes formed ostensibly to enter the booming new business of making and shaping the large sheets of plate glass suddenly in so much demand.† (source)
- Minnie loved her husband-to-be and trusted him, but she did not know that Alexander Bond was an alias for Holmes himself, or that Benton Lyman actually was Holmes's assistant Benjamin Pitezel—and that with a few strokes of his pen her beloved Harry had taken possession of the bulk of her dead uncle's bequest.† (source)
- The Cigrands and Lawrences would have found their anxiety intensified manyfold had they known a few other facts: That the name Phelps was an alias that Holmes's assistant, Benjamin Pitezel, had used when he first met Emeline at the Keeley Institute; That on January 2, 1893, Holmes again had enlisted the help of Charles Chappell, the articulator, and sent him a trunk containing the corpse of a woman, her upper body stripped nearly bare of flesh; That a few weeks later the LaSalle Medica† (source)
- An alias, a Jones or a Smith—† (source)
- You used an alias.† (source)
- Alias Falun.† (source)
- Lisbeth Salander was charged with aggravated assault in the case of Carl-Magnus Lundin; with unlawful threats, attempted murder, and aggravated assault in the case of Karl Axel Bodin, alias Alexander Zalachenko, now deceased; with two counts of breaking and entering—the first at the summer cabin of the deceased lawyer Nils Erik Bjurman in Stallarholmen, the second at Bjurman's home on Odenplan; with the theft of a vehicle—a Harley-Davidson owned by one Sonny Nieminen of Svavelsjö MC; with three counts of possession of illega† (source)
- He went there under an alias to meet an American agent we have who was attending a world scientists' conference.† (source)
- The Service gave me a phony British passport; I went to the Royal Scandinavian Bank in Copenhagen and the National Bank of Finland in Helsinki, deposited the money and drew a passbook on a joint account—for me in my alias and for someone else—the agent I suppose in his alias.† (source)
- Howard was one of Holmes's more common aliases, Geyer now knew.† (source)
- Each page not only had pictures but also vital stats like height, weight, and any known aliases.† (source)
- Do you know how long I've been chasing Nicholas Flamel, or Nick Fleming, or any of the hundreds of other aliases he's used?† (source)
- Like all the students who were granted aliases, Rob Burton's words, emotions, and details of his Brown experience have not in any way been altered.† (source)
- I am grateful that only a handful of students took aliases and most of those students were only mentioned briefly.† (source)
- David Webb, Oriental scholar and for three years Jason Bourne, assassin, had two additional aliases with passports, driver's licenses and voter registration cards to confirm the identities.† (source)
- So the killer with many aliases was escorted to the wide bulkhead on the left, where his woman was gently transferred from the wheelchair to the seat on the aisle; his was next to the window.† (source)
- They were, however, just kids, and I was in their home-the dorm-so I agreed that they could assume aliases if they were significantly mentioned in the book in ways that made them uncomfortable.† (source)
- Along another pattern of track, another string of decisions taken, switches closed, the faceless pointsmen who'd thrown them now all transferred, deserted, in stir, fleeing the skip-tracers, out of their skull, on horse, alcoholic, fanatic, under aliases, dead, impossible to find ever again.† (source)
- As for Lavington himself, alias Croker, alias Reed, I wonder which of the gang it was who stuck a knife into him the other day in Holland?† (source)
- The Prussian spy Hans Rabener, alias Viktor Runeberg, attacked with drawn automatic the bearer of the warrant for his arrest, Captain Richard Madden.† (source)
- Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille.† (source)
- Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an ALIAS.† (source)
- Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thenardier's order.† (source)
- I gave an involuntary half start at hearing the alias: I had forgotten my new name.† (source)
- You own the name and renounce the alias?† (source)
- Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetiere (the Flower Girl).† (source)
- "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly.† (source)
- I said that Christine Daae's abductor was the Angel of Music, ALIAS the Opera ghost, and that the real name was ...† (source)
- This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.† (source)
- The inspector muttered:— "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards."† (source)
- Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the case, to ten years in the galleys.† (source)
- One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a bar of iron.† (source)
- Now, at the Pantheon, at the Val-de-Grace, and at the Barriere de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarre, Glorieux, an ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was directed by this incident.† (source)
- Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very dangerous nocturnal roamer.† (source)
- inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hopital, in house No.† (source)
- Or did he plot in any way, half-heartedly or otherwise, to drag her up there under the guise of various aliases and then, because she would not set him free, drown her?† (source)
- Gentlemen, once more I insist that it was cowardice, mental and moral, and not any plot or plan for any crime of any kind, that made Clyde Griffiths travel with Roberta Alden under various aliases to all the places I have just mentioned—that made him write 'Mr.† (source)
- / [64] This use of /tenderloin/ is ascribed to Alexander (alias "Clubber") Williams, a New York police captain.† (source)
- —Remanded, says J. J. One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob.† (source)
- Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture).† (source)
- At this remark passed obviously in the spirit of where ignorance is bliss Mr B. and Stephen, each in his own particular way, both instinctively exchanged meaning glances, in a religious silence of the strictly entre nous variety however, towards where Skin-the-Goat, alias the keeper, not turning a hair, was drawing spurts of liquid from his boiler affair.† (source)
- However reverting to friend Sinbad and his horrifying adventures (who reminded him a bit of Ludwig, alias Ledwidge, when he occupied the boards of the Gaiety when Michael Gunn was identified with the management in the Flying Dutchman, a stupendous success, and his host of admirers came in large numbers, everyone simply flocking to hear him though ships of any sort, phantom or the reverse, on the stage usually fell a bit flat as also did trains) there was nothing intrinsically incompatible about it, he conceded.† (source)
- The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of darkness; alias, the devil.† (source)
- WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA† (source)
- Of course nobody being acquainted with his movements even before there was absolutely no clue as to his whereabouts which were decidedly of the Alice, where art thou order even prior to his starting to go under several aliases such as Fox and Stewart so the remark which emanated from friend cabby might be within the bounds of possibility.† (source)
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