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Recent Examples of nomenclatorAs Hawkins High's resident dungeon master — and Vecna's unwitting nomenclator — Eddie has some ideas.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 June 2022
Over the last 10 years, revenue overall has grown by nearly 500% on the strength of its online dictionary, thesaurus, mobile apps and word games.
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Leanne Italie,
Fortune,
25 Sep. 2025
Throughout the thesaurus series there is a recurrence of words in Yiddish, a language Bochner—whose parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants—was raised hearing at home.
The propeller hat has become a signature look for the pig — a 4-year-old Vietnamese potbelly named Merlin — who has more than 1 million followers on Instagram, a surprisingly hefty vocabulary and a Guinness World Record.
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Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
5 Apr. 2026
The subject matter is deathly serious—international war, unfolding in real time, killing thousands—yet the visual vocabulary is preposterously trivializing.