place name
Example Sentences
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In the Middle East, a place name is never just a name—it is a claim.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Registering a place name is not allowed without "acquired distinctiveness".
From BBC • Jan. 1, 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 on the Pacific coast; sandy beach and arid tropical scrub forest.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.
