proper name
Example Sentences
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The fate of “Predator: Badlands” rides on Dek, the first iteration of the title creature to have a proper name.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
Anyone who can weasel that amount of money out of a purported institution of higher learning should now be known by his proper name.
From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2023
Here’s what to know about rugby, or rugby union to give it its proper name, and its big event.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023
Teslyn Barkman, deputy chair of the territory's Legislative Assembly, urged EU countries to "respect the wishes of the Falkland Islanders and refer to us by our proper name".
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023
Both islands were ever after sacred to her, and she was called Cytherea or the Cyprian as often as by her proper name.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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