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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 -
For the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes, Monday night’s College Football Playoff title game is a homecoming and then some. MIAMI — In the vein of Miami as an adjective just as much as a proper noun, this College Football Playoff championship game has wound up so very Miami.—
Chuck Culpepper,
Washington Post,
19 Jan. 2026
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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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“Mass noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mass%20noun. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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