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For 19-year-old Li from Shanghai, who didn't give her first name, these are places where she "can see so many possibilities, and where existing ideas can be challenged".

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

“Misha’s on his own here,” the lawmaker said, using another version of Fedorov’s first name.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

He got his first name from the woman who delivered him as a baby while his mother was in labor.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Begum, who did not give her first name, told AFP she had been turned away by many factories in Gazipur despite having experience in sewing and hemming.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

I didn’t know it because I never would have called him by his first name.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson



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