Mary L. Trump

Certainly, in the case of my dad, who was the oldest son, heir apparent and namesake, there was harsh discipline and humiliation which Donald, seven and a half years younger, was able to witness and learn very specific lessons from: don't be like Freddy, don't be kind, don't be generous, don't have 'frivolous' interests.

American Psychologist

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.

American Clergyman

KaDee Strickland

My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!

American Actress

Joseph Benavidez

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

American Athlete

Suzy Menkes

Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

British Journalist

Stephon Marbury

My sister had been praying for me since I was born: my sister, Stephanie, my namesake. That's what she is to me; my namesake - Stephanie, Stephon. Stephanie - that's my daughter's name. I kept it in the family.

Marlon Brando

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

American Actor

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

American Journalist

Nancy Wilson

We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.

American Musician

Eric Roberts

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.

Namesake indicates a shared name, implying a connection, honor, or tribute between two entities.

Shared Identity

Using 'namesake' often shows a personal or emotional bond, especially in family or close relationships.

Emotional Bond

'Namesake' applies to both people and objects, such as buildings or ships named after someone.

Not Always People

 Renaming ought to be a rare thing on a research university campus like ours, but sometimes renaming might be appropriate. We're supposed to think abstractly about principle legacies, thinking about whether the idea is contested at the time of the namesake, thinking about what the motive of the university was in putting the name on the building.

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 be best remembered for his namesake design which was a called the Dobsonian telescope and it's a unique novel way of mounting larger lenses using whatever materials happen to be lying around Dobson was not an engineer he was not even a classically trained astronomer in fact he began his young career as a monk

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 obviously up to something she seems to be kind of keeping herself as hidden as possible and then just sort of appearing here and there in small sort of doses keeping the mystery around her strong she's almost taken after her sister's namesake and become a shadow cat in many respects but I'm sure she'll

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 Although the book's main villain and namesake is thought to be based on the historical figure of Vlad III Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler, the association is mostly just that they share a name. Other elements and characters were inspired directly and indirectly

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 super stoked about that and like hype about it i think that we should be sending the best that humanity has to offer among the stars and that harriet tubman fit that and that james webb the current namesake for the telescope i'm simply

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 I am not alone. I have this huge network of supporters behind me, and there is no way I'm ever going to stop. I will continue doing this, most probably for the rest of my life. And I'll keep doing this for Patrícia, my namesake,

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 4.5 billion years ago, Jupiter was the solar system's first planet. And much like its namesake, the king of the ancient Roman gods, Jupiter was destined for greatness. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun,

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 and other related things. The culmination of this is if you've successfully raised your tadpole, observing the behavioral and developmental events, you will then go and introduce your tadpole to its namesake

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 shares with an ant the swollen thorn acacia and its namesake the acacia ant have developed harmonious roles in each other's lives the anthro is as protector if any of

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 To this day, Uranus is still the only planet that veered from tradition with an ancient Greek namesake, a status most fitting for a planet beyond convention.

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