Example Sentences

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Contrast this nomenclatural bonhomie with her treatment of the hapless Democratic operatives whom she brings onto the show to be yelled at during panel discussions.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2019

Near this spot, some five hundred years ago, the Mississippi went on a bender, creating a kind of hydrological as well as nomenclatural hair ball.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

It was a nomenclatural own-goal of historic proportions.

From Slate • May 17, 2018

I’m hoping we can convince the council to expand this to Stuart Broad Street and kill the two birds of pedantry and celebration with one nomenclatural stone.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2015

It boiled down to the United States being represented by those persons who were going to be at the Congress anyway and by men who were not specialists in nomenclatural matters.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association