One journalist dubbed the controversy "Cone-of-Silence-List of scandals with "-gate" suffix".

The fall of Poland was followed by what contemporary journalists dubbed the "Phoney War" or Sitzkrieg ("sitting war").

A journalist promptly dubbed it the best car in the world.

Encouraged by its efforts during this conflict, later that year, principally through violence and the success of general strikes in Beirut, the Phalange achieved what journalists dubbed the "counterrevolution."

In the wake of the success of Gold Diggers of Broadway, journalists had dubbed Warner "the godfather of the talking screen."

One journalist dubbed the controversy "Cone-of-Silence-Gate".

By 1990, Károlyi gymnasts were so predominant at national United States meets that journalists dubbed the top cluster of athletes the "Károlyi six-pack."

The immediate catalyst for violent activity in the Fallujah area came after what many Iraqis and foreign journalists dubbed a "massacre" in Fallujah.

Unable to cope with the Maltese name, visiting journalists have dubbed it "Maalox Bay."