name after

Also, name for. Give someone or something the name of another person or place. For example, They named the baby after his grandfather, or The mountain was named for President McKinley.

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We confess that we just had to google this guy’s name after he’d been sitting in our notes all week as “FEMA idiot.”

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A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants scrapped plans to use “Gold Diggers” as an alternative team name after women were offended by a video marketing the name.

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The Tea Party, which became a household name after the 2010 midterm, took up the fight to defund Planned Parenthood, led by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the future vice president.

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The midfielder pointed to match-winner Hamza Igamane and mouthed the Moroccan's name after his stunning strike clinched a second Old Firm win in a row.

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Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.

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