Example Sentences

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Last fall the internet witnessed a rare phenomenon: the meteoric, meme-ified rise of a brand-new star, catapulted into mononymic ubiquity thanks to a single 2½-minute movie trailer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023

Whatever the debate around Demna, the mononymic creative director of Balenciaga — is he a genius, a charlatan, the most influential designer of his generation? — there’s no denying he has impeccable timing.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

Let’s jump the gun and grant him mononymic stardom already: Zion is a big deal.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019

The singer, who goes by the mononymic Michela, will be the 11th act in Thursday's second semi-final.

From BBC • May 12, 2019

In June, 1972, Young was performing in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, just across from the White House, with the electronic-music innovators Joe Gallivan and the mononymic Nicholas in the trio Love Cry Want. Reportedly,

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2016