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A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.

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Uso de byword em inglês
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But today Shoreditch is a byword for artist-catalysed gentrification and buy-to-let speculation.
The Guardian
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Instead his arch nemesis became a byword for political strength and stability.
News.com.au
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Why is the Department a byword among journalists for secretiveness and unhelpfulness?
The Irish Times
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The name of Adam Warner became a byword of scorn and horror.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
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As it is, they are becoming a byword even in London streets.
Tom Tufton's Travels
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It is an old byword that the bottle is a false consoler.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
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The name of an Englishman has been made a byword for reproach.
North America — Volume 1
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The truth was, that 'vying with Israel' was a byword with us.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
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Papal Court, whose nullity indeed had become a byword at the Vatican.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
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The silent deadliness of Tore was a byword now among the tribes.
The wandering fire
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Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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Once a byword for flakiness, Spurs are now hailed for their ferocity.
The Guardian
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You operate under an alias that is a byword for foul temper.
The system of the world
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Even before it opened, the Dome had become a byword for failure.
The Guardian
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They had always been a byword for overarching civic ambition and stupidity.
The Guardian
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I degraded the old name, I made it a byword in the district.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
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