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  2. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    The most popular personal name placeholders are מה-שמו (mah-shmo, 'whatsisname'), משה (Moshe = Moses) and יוֹסִי (Yossi, common diminutive form of Yosef) for first name, and כהן (Cohen, the most common surname in Israel) for last name.

  3. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    This is a relatively new phenomenon that was unknown in the early 20th century. Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [60] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"

  4. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  5. String interpolation - Wikipedia

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    The placeholder may be a variable name, or in some languages an arbitrary expression, in either case evaluated in the current context. String interpolation is an alternative to building string via concatenation , which requires repeat quoting and unquoting; [ 2 ] or substituting into a printf format string , where the variable is far from where ...

  6. Template:TAFI bar - Wikipedia

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    Foobar is one of today's articles for improvement.You can help! Example image The terms foobar, fubar, or foo, bar, baz and qux (alternatively quux) are sometimes used as placeholder names (also referred to as metasyntactic variables) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.

  7. Talk:List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Someone should add Aulus Agerius and edit the section about Numerius Negidius: the two names are often found in law together, with the former meaning the plaintiff (agerius < agere, to move the case or to prosecute) and the latter the defendant (negidius < negare, to deny the accusation or to defend the case).

  8. Airline stocks soar as demand for premium travel booms - AOL

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    Major US airline stocks have soared in recent months as Wall Street grows more bullish on increased revenue from route expansions and growing demand for premium travel.. Delta and United stocks ...

  9. Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia

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    A metasyntactic variable is a specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming.These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted before real-world usage.