proper name
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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
Everett’s inversion of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told by the eponymous James, allows its narrator to reclaim both his proper name and history from the character Twain simply called “Jim.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
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
Camacho explains that the puppies are known by a number until they are three months old, when they are given a proper name.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
It seemed to look between Ekon and Koffi, musing, and as its gaze landed on Ekon, its proper name rose to the forefront of his mind, pulled from the pages of Nkrumah’s journal.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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