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Safety Beau Brade, echoing his head coach, put it more succinctly and alliteratively.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2022

As might be inferred from her two previous alliteratively subtitled works—“Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess” and “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch”—Smith is an avid monarchist.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

The next locale offers little more enticement: A terminally ill seaside town whose main claim to fame lies in being alliteratively denounced by a terminally ill king.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2016

Open, Williams had won the 2015 Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon, alliteratively called the Serena Slam back when she completed it the first time 12 years ago.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2015

The intervening spaces were taken up with little jars and cups and saucers—gold inside, with a view of a town outside, and surrounding them, 'A Present from Clacton-on-Sea,' or, alliteratively, 'A Memento of Margate.'

From Liza of Lambeth by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)