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The fate of “Predator: Badlands” rides on Dek, the first iteration of the title creature to have a proper name.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

The garden centre - Hartley's Nurseries to give it its proper name - is 10 miles or so outside of Liverpool and is a sixth-generation family business.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Anyone who can weasel that amount of money out of a purported institution of higher learning should now be known by his proper name.

From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Here’s what to know about rugby, or rugby union to give it its proper name, and its big event.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Ma was the only person that calls me by my proper name.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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