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Recent Examples of proper noun
The chaos around The Trade (proper noun) masks a super interesting Lakers team.
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Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
Other proper nouns, like the Darkhold, can be safely tuned out.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
Kang inundates readers with proper nouns like the Radiant dynasty and Three Golden Dumplings (to say nothing of the inevitable purple cloud) that vaguely link different points on the timeline, but that have no ties to a social or material world.
—Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
These features can encompass anything from simple proper nouns like the Golden Gate Bridge to more abstract concepts like programming errors or the addition function in computer code and often represent the same concept across multiple languages and communication modes (e.g., text and images).
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
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Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
Other proper nouns, like the Darkhold, can be safely tuned out.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
Kang inundates readers with proper nouns like the Radiant dynasty and Three Golden Dumplings (to say nothing of the inevitable purple cloud) that vaguely link different points on the timeline, but that have no ties to a social or material world.
—Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
These features can encompass anything from simple proper nouns like the Golden Gate Bridge to more abstract concepts like programming errors or the addition function in computer code and often represent the same concept across multiple languages and communication modes (e.g., text and images).
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proper 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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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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“Proper noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proper%20noun. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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