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According to the current contract, which runs through 2029, Fox gets to claim the first three games off the Big Ten schedule (that’s where The Game, proper noun, keeps falling).—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025 -
YouTube Golf may not be an official subsection of the platform, but the rapidly growing genre has become a proper noun among viewers.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Aug. 2025
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What’s perhaps most beautiful (in addition to learning that the collective noun for butterflies is a kaleidoscope)?—
Longreads,
Longreads,
1 Mar. 2024
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What is the collective noun for queens? Imelda Staunton's Elizabeth II is joined by younger versions of herself, played by Claire Foy and Olivia Colman, on the series finale of The Crown, which is now streaming on Netflix.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
14 Dec. 2023
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Jacob believed that the capitalization of common nouns was an inorganic import and did away with it, a choice that inspired parodies in the German press.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
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But perhaps even worse is the alternate fashion of just using common nouns as names, for example, Rust, Ruby, and Scheme.—
Stephen Cass,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Sep. 2023
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“Count noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/count%20noun. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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