place name
Example Sentences
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There are no hard-and-fast rules about when a place name or other traditional description attached to a product becomes generic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
If a particular place name sounds hilarious to English speakers, you can bet local people are tired of having that pointed out by giggling visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
This is a traditional place name for the waterway and the translation of the Clallam word “Scɬəqʷ.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
I’d been discussing the Holocaust for 45 minutes and the whole time he’d heard “Nazi Germany” as “Nazi, Germany,” as though I were saying a place name like “Atlanta, Georgia.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
A place name here "Peircies Toyle" Creek very likely is a result of his activity in this area.
From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Charles E. Hatch
