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Noun
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Unlike the overheated adjectives that preceded it, this bit of legerdemain is a proper noun.—
Bruce Stockler,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026 -
Familiar proper nouns — Fuddruckers, Burger King, Coconut Grove, Sushi Sake — pack this week’s list of South Florida restaurants closed by inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This collective noun was earned because owls' solemn expressions resembled elderly politicians debating in dark rooms, says Cassill.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
26 May 2026
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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
Noun
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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 12 Jun. 2026.
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