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Discover LudwigThe phrase "formal name" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the specific and most commonly used name of something or someone. For example, "The formal name of this small village is Littlehampton."
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(Its formal name: Viola sororia Freckles).
A formal name would come later.
Few Israelis refer to the institute by its formal name.
The formal name for this service is "account aggregation".
Its formal name is the Republic of China.
(The organization's formal name is Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division).
Coogan stepped forward and asked about Chino, using his formal name, Manuel.
The bomb's formal name is Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, in Pentagonese.
A sign on the lawn announces the estate's formal name: Bleak House.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group's formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum.
Instead, his father called him by his full, formal name, Philip.
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