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Use "kunyas" in a sentence
"We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas."
"Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the U.S. military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing."
"The 9/11 conspirators also awarded themselves kunyas, Islamic honorific names, which often referred to figures from Islam’s heroic early history."