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1. Friedman said “caution has been a byword” in his long handling of the case but it was time for Hinckley to be set free.
2. Flying cars are almost a byword for the misplaced optimism of technologists, but recent news suggests their future may be on slightly firmer footing.
3. Robinhood, the brokerage that has become a byword for the boom in retail trading, is planning to go public.
4. Soon their sweeping machine was outselling their cups and saucers and Bissell became a byword for floor cleaners—by royal appointment too!
5. It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.
6. At a time when “right to work” has become a byword for union-busting, this is radical indeed.
7. Syndicated columnist Dan Savage even campaigned to turn “santorum” into a byword for sexual waste as revenge.
8. By Leo Mirani Drones have a terrible reputation, mostly because they have become a byword for death and destruction.
9. But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
10. For years the names of oil king and iron master have been a hissing and a byword among the hot-heads in America.
11. A prince may be the byword of all Europe, yet he alone know nothing of it.
12. And besides, when folk talk of a country covered with troops, it's but a kind of a byword at the best.
13. Had not the justice of the strong become a byword and a loathing?