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* In Steven Cole's novel ''Thieves Like Us,'' an inscrutable benefactor gets a quintet of teenage criminal masterminds to help him find, steal and sell long-lost artifacts. The benefactor's name? Nathaniel Coldhardt.
* Marvell's poem "Definition of Love" is about the faults and difficulties the author has with love. Definio is Latin for "I Limit".
* The initials of the duplicitous Francis Urquhart in ''[[House of Cards (British series)]]'' are no coincidence
* Cruella de Vil from ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''. Say no more.
* Repeatedly, explicitly and joyfully played with by Iain M Banks in his ''[[The Culture|Culture]]'' novels, in which the ultra-intelligent AI "Minds" of the Culture choose their own names when emplaced in a ship. A warship may have a name like ''Attitude Adjuster'', ''Lasting Damage'' or ''Killing Time'', the "slightly weird" General Contact Units rejoice in names like ''Only Slightly Bent'' and ''I Thought He Was With You'', whereas more "normal" Culture vessels can have names from the obvious relevant (''Quietly Confident'', ''Grey Area''), through the arbitrary (''Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The,'' ''Yawning Angel'') to the absolutely surreal(''Absolutely No You-Know-What'', ''Pure Big Mad Boat Man''). ''All of these'', apparently, are Meaningful Names, and reflect the ship's personality in some way. A complete list can be found [[wikipedia:List of ships (The Culture)|here]].
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