last name
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Someone with evil intentions does not need to know your family's last name and your address, or even your last initial.
Hints From Heloise: CDC suggests coronavirus vaccinations first for select groups | Heloise Heloise | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostOther studies have used things like algorithms that analyze last names to divide past data into subgroups, and Ungab and Araneta think such analyses are possible to do in San Diego.
Filipino Residents Have Been Hit Hard by COVID – But No One Knows Just How Hard | Maya Srikrishnan | February 1, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIt wasn’t like I came from the Andretti’s, or the Earnhardt, or Unser — famous last names with a deep lineage.
Danica Patrick on Why She Never Loved Racing and Her Post-Track Career | Joshua Eferighe | January 30, 2021 | OzySeventy percent of donations from individual contributors came from people with the last name Patel — a common last name among a subgroup of the relatively wealthy Gujarati community.
Many South Asian Americans Tap Into Their Community To Kick-Start Their Political Careers | Dhrumil Mehta (dhrumil.mehta@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightI have been married for 30 years and retained my own last name.
Miss Manners: Service workers deserve respect — no matter what | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post
But really, the A-list case comes down to the fact of his last name.
Be the Smarter Bush Brother, Jeb: Don’t Run! | Michael Tomasky | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“This place in a ripoff,” adds another prisoner who gave his last name as Parkhurst.
‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain | Sarah Shourd | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe declined to give his last name because he was concerned about pressure by authorities for speaking his mind.
With New Turkish Liquor Ban, Raki Goes Underground | Thomas Seibert | June 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe declined to give her last name, but said she graduated from law school the same year Clinton did.
Hillary Clinton Supporters Are Divided Over Her Potential 2016 Run | David Freedlander | June 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBush has the liabilities everyone knows—his last name, mostly, and that fire-in-the-belly business.
He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesI suppose he has a last name, but I didn't know it and it didn't seem to matter when one met George.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinHow he had acquired his last name of Gorman was only to be guessed at.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbHOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it.
Danny's Own Story | Don MarquisBut they finally made it up between em I didn't have no last name, and they'd jest call me Danny.
Danny's Own Story | Don Marquis
British Dictionary definitions for last name
another term for surname (def. 1)
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