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The phrase "alternative name for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to refer to another name or term that can be used interchangeably with the original name.
Example: "The alternative name for the common cold is rhinovirus."
Alternatives: "synonym for" or "another term for".
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Using an alternative name for Isis, he added: "Daesh wants to scare off the population.
In Australia, where it is popular, the wine is called sparkling shiraz (an alternative name for the grape).
In Argentina the name yarará also serves as an alternative name for the wutu and the Patagonian lancehead (B. ammodytoides).
That might serve as an alternative name for Ms. Yu's film, or even for the genre to which it belongs.
An alternative name for the 11th month of the year that comes into use as it drags on and on.
Using an alternative name for Isis, Abbott emphasised that Australian operations would be "targeting Daesh, not the Assad regime, evil though it is".
Zipes concluded that "cardiac arrest due to VF can result from an ECD shock", referring to an alternative name for electronic control weapons.
"The problem has been Russia's focus on propping up Assad rather than concentrating on Isil," he said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State terror group.
"The first target destroyed was used by Daesh [an alternative name for Isis] as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot.
More correctly, the term is used as an alternative name for the Grand Medicine Society, or Midewiwin, of the Ojibwa Indians of North America.
An alternative name for this famous theorem was Elefuga, which Roger Bacon, writing circa ad 1250, derived from Greek words indicating "escape from misery".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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